摘要
A sports meet comes to a grim factory town, promising to shake up the workers’ daily grind-or does it? In the title story of his collection of tales set in China’s northeast, writer Ban Yu explores the clash of industrial values with the fast-paced changes of the 1990s。
作者简介
班宇,Born in 1986,Ban Yu has abachelor's degree in computerscience from NortheasternUniversity in his home city of Shenyang.Liaoning province.A rising literary star focused on shortstories,Ban has published two critically acclaimed and popular anthologies.AHapoy Excursion andWinter Swimming.His protagonists are working-class individuals-afactory worker,a gambler,a manwho has lost his job-whose voicesoften go unheard as they go throughlife inevitably affected by the era.Ban Yu's short stories have beenpublished in a number of literarymagazines,and he was named"Most Promising Newcomer"atthe 2019 Chinese Literature MediaAwards,as well as"New Writer ofthe Year"by GQ magazine."DistrictChamp"was originally publishedin an online anthology of the samename on Douban.com.
