Outline the content of the world in the smoke.

This book is written by Yu Hua, the first China writer who won the Australian suspense sentence literature prize, and contains eight short stories. These works record another life path of the author. Different from the real life path, it is possible to restore and accurate. Although the passage of time will make its paper yellow and illegible, every time it is reprinted, it will be brand-new and regain a distinct image.

These novels reflect many aspects of modernism, they embody profound humanistic concern, and return this concern for human survival to the most basic and simple nature.

"Smoke" describes the smoke world of seven families and more than a dozen characters. Some fateful endings and the erratic modal relations of characters bring us a feeling of damp, gloomy and elusive. The relationship between characters and scenery, as well as their respective relationships, are at arm's length. The tone of the novel is gloomy, the rhythm is erratic, and the characters' personalities and fates are varied. The 60-year-old woman slept with her grandson 17 every night, and later got pregnant, but she didn't know if it was her daughter or great-grandson. Having given birth to five children, he has sold four and is planning how to sell his best little daughter, a sixteen-year-old girl, at a good price. The fortune-teller who is nearly ninety years old firmly believes that his longevity is based on the short life of his younger generations, including his five children who died one after another. In order to prolong his life, he will do whatever it takes to achieve his goal, and the girl will die.

The novel describes death, blood and violence in a calm style, and on this basis reveals the cruelty of human nature and the absurdity of existence. Yu Hua seems to have brought us into a violent and ugly world, and the words exude a musty smell of death, shrouded in endless death haze. The whole novel is sinister and ghostly The usual warmth was dismembered by indifference and violence.