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Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk

Lu Xun

Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk

Paper book: €11.99

Digital: €1.99

Original publication
1928
Monolingual
22 October 2026
Pages
80
Difficulty
Hard
Genres
Biography and Autobiography, Psychology
Moods
Be moved to tears, Travel back in time, Meet a real life
Translated from
Chinese

Book summary

Lu Xun remembers his childhood and youth: the Hundred-Plant Garden where he used to play, his old nurse and the book of monsters she gave him, the temple fair he could only see after reciting his lesson. Then come his father's illness, and his student years in Japan with his teacher, Fujino.

Ten bittersweet memories, in which we discover the childhood of the greatest modern Chinese writer, and the China of the past.

This short book can be read memory by memory, in the language you are learning.

The plot

ある中国の作家が子どもの頃を思い出す。家の裏には広い野生の庭が広がっている。少年はそこでコオロギの声を聞き、人の形をしているという根を探す。

The world of the book

中国の昔の学校。この本の舞台は主に、最後の皇帝たちの時代の中国南東部の町、紹興。ある日、家族は少年を町でいちばん厳しい学校へ送り、年老いた博学な先生のもとへ通わせる。そこでは生徒全員が声を出して一斉に本を読み、教室が鳴り響く。先生も頭を振りながら読む。その間、少年はこっそり冒険小説の挿絵を写している。写真は、今も残るこの学校の教室。

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