Description: "This book contains 40 of Mo Yan's essays, which show Mo Yan's attitude towards life and his insights into life's difficult moments from the perspectives of family and friends, childhood and growing up, reading and writing. Among them, the essay 'Not Blown Down by the Gale' is a message from Mo Yan to young people on May 4 Youth Day, telling the story of encountering a gale with his grandfather on a dam when he was a child and his grandfather's resistance to the gale, and encouraging young people not to give up when they encounter difficult moments in life."
