Child

The more people you meet, the more you love children.

Little Ones — a brand-new 2019 work by Dabin, a phenomenal bestselling author.

In rhythmic prose, with field-style storytelling and a present-tense approach, the storyteller Dabin tells of these little ones — children who find joy in hardship, who know suffering and end it, who keep a pure heart, who save themselves and others:

The Lahu child Pingguan, who seeks a way out for himself and his people amid the pressure to survive and the unpredictability of life; the mischievous Dasong, who loves to play and to help and always keeps a pure heart; the Taipei son Ahong, who sold his son for one yuan and gave up a comfortable life to care for his father; the Hakka girl Cai, who fought fate and drifted half her life, giving everything to carry on the family line; the old brother Huang Jianxiang, who loves and hates with equal clarity and offers help in the snow without asking anything in return; the worldly yet translucent, clean yet simple Lao Pan, Tingting, Uncle Liang, who save themselves and others; the Northeast girl Yingtao, who once grew rice and raised pigs and went looking for a home and family of her own; and the well-behaved, clean Pingguo, who remains deep in memory…

These sincere, clean little ones, faintly glowing, use their stories — like candlelight, firefly light, shooting stars and lightning — to light up the dark night of walking alone and to cleave through the world's gloomy violence. Together with countless ordinary people and ordinary things, they pass through the trials of the red dust, forming a sentient world.

Not every story can change your life.

But once one does, it lasts a lifetime.