推荐理由
Their struggles and trials, successes and failures, strike a chord in the hearts of Ordinary people just like Us. And since they are still struggling and trying, and may still fail, we can learn from them, and draw courage and strength from their stories as we identifiy with them. They are like mirrors which'enable us to see ourselves in them.
--An Dun
先读为快
本书采用访纪实口述实录的手法，采访了十三位中国人,他们都是中国的百姓，普通人，他们来自各行各业，有敬业的老师；有不甘寂寞、要发挥余热的老摄影人；有服务行业人员；有打工者；有知识分子。他们在不同的工作岗位上实现着自己的人生价值和理想，在迥然有别的环境下追寻着自己多彩的梦想。
目录
Foreword
To Hold Your Hand, To Grow Old with You
It Seems I Am Still at the Earthquake Site
I Live to Make Your Dream More Beautiful
I Choose to Change Your Life
The Infinite Landscape Is Seen While Traveling
Sorrow and Hope in an Apartment
Atonement on the Premise of Love
Half Soft and Half Strong
Relay of Mother and Daughter, Dreaming of Being a Star
The Fateful ReEncounter
For Other People Is Also for Yourself
Loving Yourself Is Better Than Saving a Marriage
“Unemployment”, the Peak of “My Career”
Postscript
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作者简介： An Dun (the pen name of Zhang Jieying) is a reporter for the Beijing Youth Daily She began working on her case studies on the "emotional state of modern Chinese people" in 1995. Her book series Absolute Privacy-P. ersonally Told Stories About the Emotions of Modern Chinese People include Absolute Privacy, Going Home, Love Letter, The Meeting of Strangers, Without Taboo, and Written on the Moon Her essay collections Verb An Dun, Rain from Heaven, and her novels Fragments of Des-ire, Burning Love, Love You and Harm You were all bestsellers. The film Life and Death Plunder based on her novel of the same title was awarded the top prises at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival, 2005 Kerala State International Film Festival, the 5th Tiburun International Film Festi val, and the 16th Asian and Latin Ameri can Film Festival. The film We, with An Dun as its scenarist, won the prize for Best Television Film" atthe 2005 China Film Golden Rooster Awards. She began her interviews for the book series of The Chinese Dreams in 2007. So far the first and the second books of the series based on these interviews have been published under the titles of Real-Life Stories of the Young in Con'temporary China and Real-Life Stories of the Common People in Contemporary China.
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