Collection of short stories by Huang Yandan - Waiting for the Avalanche

The journey ends, the memory is shattered, Can you find your way home under the dark and lonely ice? Huang Yandan's first novel is compiled, including five novels about travel and memories, and five airport travel notes from fantasy lands, which reveal the unsolvable secrets buried in the past: the mysterious village "Adelma" where old friends can be seen, and reunions. An old classmate with a secret "You Were Not Really Here", the Bay of Ness haunted by water monsters "Nessie", a roommate who fills his life with weird stories "Cleopatra's Nose", the disaster hidden in the snow and ice Yuandian's "Waiting for the Avalanche", a foreign airport where time is infinitely distorted, washed, foreseen and frozen... removes daily routine and order, leads readers into the twists and turns of the maze of travelers, and opens up the story within the story. "Then they finally remembered that they were free when they forgot the past, abandoned time, and were content with eternal transition." Recommended articles by Luo Guixiang Recommended by Han Lizhu, Xie Xiaohong and Li Yumeng This book was funded by the Renaissance Foundation's first "Opening the Past" writer cultivation program and published as a book. ✦Excerpts from short review✦ Gorgeous imagination, rich details, descriptions about people but not entirely about people, involving weather, temperature, liquid and solid states of water, tangible or intangible life forms, uncontrollable time and huge external independent forces, the novel is not Pointing to more possibilities that can be developed? ── Luo Guixiang Reading Huang Yandan's novels seems to be watching a technique of becoming lighter. It's not about taking things lightly or avoiding the important, but sifting out the various elements that make up reality from the chaos, and using a texture and context as light as a cicada to present a story that seems magical but is deeply rooted in reality. ── Han Lizhu As a wise storyteller, Huang Yandan, like Scheherazade, has the ability to hang up mysteries and postpone deadlines. However, when the reader is still lingering on the fork in the story, she will quietly tell you that disaster has actually come. ──Xie Xiaohong Yan Dan's writing is concise, the story is fantastic and interesting, and the picture is strong. During the reading process, you can closely follow the consciousness and ups and downs of the protagonist of the story, get into the set and arranged scenes, and feel the unique thinking and logic behind it. . ── Li Yumeng 【About the author】 Huang Yandan @arisira_wong graduated from the Law Department of the University of Hong Kong. Winner of the Renaissance Foundation's first "Revelation" writer cultivation program, and winner of the fourth Hong Kong Leung Hiu Ling Literary Emerging Award of Hong Kong Baptist University. His works are mainly short stories, which have been published in Ming Pao, Zihua and other media. He is currently the editor of Zihua. Illustration│Kori Song size 140 x 210 mm｜pages 286pp Original price: HKD$138 ▍Contents Recommended order ——From individual imagination to greater external power/Luo Guixiang Recommended words——Han Lizhu, Xie Xiaohong, Li Yumeng I. Adelma Penelope's Travels - Notes on Isidora Airport II. You were never here Penelope's Travels - Morilla Airport III. Nessie Penelope’s Travel Notes - Zaira Airport IV. Cleopatra’s Nose Penelope's Travels - Remembering Sola Airport V. Waiting for the avalanche Penelope's Travels - Notes on Diomela Airport postscript ▍ Content preview She looked out the window. Except that there seemed to be more snow on the top of the tree than before, everything in front of her was completely the same as before. There was no snow flowing down the mountain like a waterfall, no thick fog, and no screams. There were only absolutely still mountains and endless snow as far as the eye could see. Everything was incredibly quiet, so quiet that it made her hair stand on end. She couldn't imagine the violent scene in her boss's mouth. To her, the words he said were not conveyed into her reality except in literal meaning. At that moment, she found that all the questions, reasons and meanings that had existed had been instantly extracted by this collapsing and overwhelming blankness, and were buried under the deep and bottomless snow, as if they had never existed. Although she didn't witness it with her own eyes, and couldn't dig through the layers of snow to figure out what was going on, she knew that somewhere she couldn't see, someone was buried under the snow forever, just like the person under the ice. Blurred corpse. ──〈Waiting for the avalanche〉 At Diomela Airport, you always hear people asking: "Where did I come from? Where am I going?" If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, you wouldn't believe it. Diomela Airport is a huge aluminum-iron Ferris wheel that rotates counterclockwise, day and night. There are no floor numbers in the airport terminal, and there is no distinction between upper and lower floors, because the boarding gate, which was still on the highest floor just now, will become a lower floor in the blink of an eye, and the arrival hall, which was originally on the ground floor, will be on the lower floor before you realize it. When it came, it was already in mid-air. Passengers must reserve sufficient time, queue up at the airport in advance, and then wait for the right moment to wait for the destination floor to turn to the ground, and then rush in to enter smoothly. ──〈Penelope’s Travels── Notes on O’Meara Airport〉 Book Title: "Waiting for the Avalanche" Author: Huang Yandan Illustration: Kori Song Editor: Li Rikang, Ye Zisong Layout design: Zac Choy Proofreading: Yu Peifeng Publisher: Boiled Fish Culture Dimensions: 140 x 210 mm Number of pages: 286 pages