To Live by Yu Hua

Author:Yu Hua
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3, pdf
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780307429797
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2009-04-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chimney smoke swirled upward, dancing in the sky above the roof of a small farmhouse as the last rays of evening sunlight broke up and disappeared.

The sound of mothers calling their children home began to subside as a man carrying a load of manure walked past me. The bamboo pole he used to support the load squeaked as he went by. Gradually, the fields surrendered to silence. All around there appeared a kind of haze as the glow of dusk slowly dissolved.

As the black night descended from the heavens, I knew that in the blink of an eye I would witness the death of the sunset. I saw the exposed and firm chest of the vast earth; its pose was one of calling, of beckoning. And just as a mother beckons her children, so the earth beckoned the coming of night.

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