Novel，Prize Awarded

《捎话》刘亮程
Bearing Word By Liangcheng LIU

Introduction:
A Mao Dun Literature Award nominee in 2019.
An exotic, mysterious and philosophical adventure of a message deliverer and a donkey.
Intensely exhilarating, intellectually challenging, arresting and provocative, the work so richly transcends the conventional limitations of genre as to make the definition seem almost irrelevant…The technique of Liangcheng LIU’s novel proclaims that he himself is a magnificently accomplished hybrid artist, able to take from Eastern and Western traditions with equal ease and flair. This pivotal book could conclusively establish itself as one of the most excellent literary works in the world. ——Gao Xing, Editor-in-chief of World Literature Set in Pisha and Heile, two warring countries in the west without any official communication, this excellent fantastic fable centers on a story between Ku, a messenger and famous translator fluent in several languages and a donkey named Xie which is said to be a message itself, Ku was asked to deliver the donkey Xie to his hostile country thousands of miles away, thus the two of them embarked on the journey, Together they crossed battlefields and deserts, witnessing incredible happenings in life and death.
Part fantasy and part philosophical puzzle, Bearing Word isa kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of war, love, faith and power, Liangcheng LIU tiptoes the harmony between human and nature, sticking to his writing concept of everything has a spirit”..
About the Author：
Liangcheng LIU, a Chinese writer from Xinjiang. He is the author of the poetry collection “The Sun on the Yellow Sand Ridge（《晒晒黄沙梁的太阳》）”, the essay collections “A Village of One’s Own（《一个人 的村庄》）” and “In Xinjiang（《在新疆》）”, the novels “Drifting Soil(《虚土》)” and “Hallowed Out(《凿 空》”. Many of his articles are included in national Chinese textbooks for middle and high schools and universities. He won the sixth Lu Xun Literary Award. In 2013, he moved to Mu Lei, Xinjiang, where he founded the Caizigou Artist Village and Mu Lei Academy（菜籽沟艺术家村落及木垒书院）, serving as its president.