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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

一位中國作家回憶他的童年。屋後有一座很大的野園子。孩子在那裡聽蟋蟀叫,尋找據說長得像人形的根。

The world of the book

中國的一所舊式學堂。這本書主要發生在紹興,中國東南部的一座城市,時間是末代皇帝的年代。有一天,家裡把孩子送進城裡最嚴厲的學堂,跟一位年老又博學的先生讀書。那裡的學生一起放開喉嚨大聲讀書,整個屋子嗡嗡作響。先生也讀,一邊搖著頭。這時,孩子偷偷描摹冒險小說裡的圖畫。照片拍的是這所學堂的屋子,它至今還在。

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