Series works II "Soul Trilogy"

Series works II "Soul Trilogy"

"Curse of the Xi Xia", "the Wolf of Xi Xia"," Eternal Vajrasattva"

The history of suffering and redemption of western China

Explore the literature from soul dimension

"To the wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism"

Standing on the height to reflect on the history of human beings

True sense of the religious novel

Combination of biography, fable, symbolic and magic

"The Writing of Kafkaesque Style"

"The Curse of Xi Xia"

Number of pages：446

Price：RMB32

Issued by: Writers Publishing House，2010

Impact and evaluation:

"A magic work after Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude", "A pioneering work",  Chen Xiaoming, a professor at Peking University, a famous critic, said: " When reading the White Tiger Gate, it is a carrying passion; reading the Curse of Xi Xia made me realize, Xue Mo is not only an undervalued writer, but also a severely underestimated writer." Xiao Jinghong, the research director of the Chinese Writers' Association said: "the Curse of Xi Xia" is "able to enter the vision of world literature".

Summary:

It is a book exploring nightmare like fiction, suffering of mankind, arriving to the limits of narration and reflection, exploring the possibility of human beings relying on faith to go beyond the suffering of soul and redemption.

The records on the civilization of the Xi Xia, is very rare, especially from the official history point of view. By a chance, in a cave named Vajrasattva in the western desert town Liangzhou unearthed eight pieces of manuscripts left over by the Xi Xia. These manuscripts record the history of a village called " Diamond", one of the main line is called "Joan" a Xi Xia monks, the other is called of XueYu’er, a woman. Joan and XueYu’er are always in each other's dreams, waiting for each other to find each other, they suffered their unbearable suffering in the Tibetan Buddhist practice and the man and woman go beyond the suffering via a joint practice of a coupler and achieved enlightening.   .

Through the interpretation of these manuscripts of Xi Xia period, with the seemingly absurd practices, through time and space, life and death, soul and body, showing a little-known western cultural landscape, such as Tibetan Buddhism vocal incantation, the western villagers to fight the enemy, stripping of life human’s skin to produce the instruments, women riding on a wooden donkey going through the streets, Tibetan Buddhist joint practice of man and woman, and so on. In depth exploring humanity reached a rare height. In the book, by the thousand years of bloody war, tragedy of famine led man-eating, people persecuting people, to the extreme of human suffering, good and evil, man and beast, life and death, love and passion, a lot of proposition again and again, torture, the bottom line of human morality and human nature. Suffering such a huge nightmare, people have nowhere to escape. The only means of salvation out human suffering of suffocation is only faith.