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Although I read hundreds of translated novels every year, my interest is often amateur. For example, in the past two years of reading, I found that China elements appear more and more in western novels, and most of these elements are empirical and mirror images of the plane, and there is no longer the mystery, eccentricity and strangeness of the colonial era. In other words, China is gradually getting rid of the embarrassment and misunderstanding of "curiosity" and entering the western vision more normally. In this regard, I will inevitably have a recognized joy and joy, although this is not an elegant literary reading posture. The first thing that attracted me to The Book Signature Collector was the China element that can't be ignored. First of all, the hero Alex Lee? Tandem is half China, and his father is a native of China. Secondly, the next ten chapters in the book are named after each painting in Ten Cows by Zen painter Kuan 'an, written by Zadi? Smith also quoted many Zen cases skillfully and casually, and his interpretation of Five Lights and A Biography of a Monk can be described as exquisite. Reading this novel also helped me to relive the Zen knowledge and sentiment that once haunted me.
Of course, these China elements are not the main components of the Collection, and there are other novels. ...