Snail

Snail is an award-winning work of the Third Bronze Sunflower Children Novel Award, which has been unanimously praised by Nie Zhenning, Wang Quangen, Lin Wenbao, Xu Kun and Li Er. With Huaxi Village as the background and what the boy Bandeng saw and heard as the main body, this book describes the life, suffering and hope of the people in Huaxi Village. Huaxi Village was originally a beautiful and poetic small village. The men in the village went to work in the mine and made a lot of money to build a house for their family. However, everyone was infected with silicosis without exception. Great disasters fell on Huaxi Village and the local people. People with silicosis have difficulty breathing and move slowly. They are called "e;snails"e;. The father of the boy Bandeng is a snail and his three uncles are also "e;snails"e;. Almost all the fathers of his friends are "e;snails"e;. However, these people living at the bottom are not overwhelmed by hardship but live their own wonderful lives. The fourth uncle of Bandeng is a poet. In the darkest mine, he writes poems that only he knows with the faint light of a flashlight. The father of Bandeng was weak but he did not complain. He strongly supported his son's dream and encouraged him to go out of this small mountain village. Uncle Que, the only strong but blind man in the village, is a natural musician. He uses music to help children find love... And the plain grandfather, a kind mother and everyone in Huaxi Village lives a blossoming life against suffering. The boy Bandeng has a talent for long-distance running and trumpet playing. Every evening, Bandeng, Qingsui and Erduo take turns playing the trumpet at Uncle Que's house to bring the only joy to the people of Huaxi Village. Bandeng lost the opportunity to go to the city sports school because he missed his father in a long-distance race and did not complete the race. However, he was not sad about this result. He was willing to stay here to take care of his father and the people in Huaxi Village... The "e;snails"e; died and there was a mudslide in Huaxi Village. Accompanied by the passage of spring and the recession of flood, Huaxi was still Huaxi. Everything remained unchanged. The boy Bandeng was also admitted to the city sports school and ran away from the mountain village... Just like a snail, even if it moves slowly, it wants to climb up a little bit.