This is the first literary review collection of the author Zhang Yueran. It builds the kingdom of reading from characters and perspectives to conflicts and plots with the framework of writing. And it captures the most representative literary moments in modern time from James Joyce and Anton Chekhov to James Monroe and Roberto Bolano. And the 15 creative writing classes will bring moments of epiphany to literature lovers. 'Epiphany is the moment when the spiritual world is illuminated.' Everyone can follow the light of the fiction to find what they've lost themselves and re-give it life with reading and writing.
Zhang Yueran (Chinese:张悦然, born 1982) is a Chinese writer. Her main works include short stories and novels. She won the 2001 New Concept Composition Competition organised by Mengya magazine.She is one of a small group of successful Chinese authors known as the "post-'80s" generation. She began writing at the age of 14, and as a high school student, won first prize in the nationwide New Concept Composition Competition. After studying English and law at Shandong University, she completed a graduate degree in computer science at Singapore University. She is one of the most popular young writers in mainland China today. Her published works include Red Shoes (Hong Xie), Ten Tales of Love (Shi Ai) and Oath Bird (Shi Niao).
Murakami Haruki’s obsession in hero-style growth might have been his writing inertia that he fails to discard. This explains a lot about the dullness I always felt in some of his books.