The rest of my life

Li Zishu selected 47 short stories from her older works and 24 from her uncollected works to create this collection. This is a review and summary of her farewell to short story writing.

Li Zishu: “I don’t know when I will have the confidence to return to writing micro-fiction after this farewell, but I think it will definitely not happen in the next three or four years, and whether I can come back is still uncertain.

The works in this collection are certainly my favorites or the ones I am most satisfied with. I also hope that through them, I can fully present to readers the city of micro-fiction that I have been committed to building in the past. "

Lin Gao (writer, invited director of the Singapore Writers Association): "Reading this collection, I always feel that Li Zishu is narrating stories in reality. Even if the mood has cooled, the eyes remain warm, and readers can feel the author's understanding and care."

Li Zishu's attentive writing is something that must be carefully savored, especially the emotional turning points, which often bring out a poetic feeling and make the aesthetic interest of the novel even more elusive.

Li Zishu

Born in Ipoh in 1971.

Since 1995, he has won numerous domestic and overseas literary awards such as Huazong, United Daily News and Times. He has also won the Malaysia Outstanding Young Writer Award, Yunlifeng Annual Outstanding Writer Award, and Nanyang Chinese Literature Award, etc.

The novel "The Age of Farewell" won the Jury Award at the 4th Dream of Red Mansions Novel Award.

He has published novels, collections of short stories, collections of micro-fiction, and collections of essays. Among the micro-fiction collections are "Micro Li Zishu", "No Coincidence, No Book" and "Abbreviation".

Preface / Seeing and Grasping: A Path for the Rest of Life ⊙ Lin Gao 7

Volume 1 <br />I am 17
Peer 20
Curtain 23
Lost 25
Freshman 27
Spring in the Universe 30
Stay 32
Homeward 35
Overwatch 37
Murderer 39
Dark Alley 42
Missing Person 44
Today is not Wednesday 47
Go Home 50
Steal 52
Seagull Dance 55

Volume 2 <br />Human World 61
64 people
Sunshine 66
The Last Day of Childhood 69
Happy Times 71
Lip Reading 74
Migration 77
Big Brother 80
Dilemma 83
A barber died.
Kasuga 89
The Same Spring Day 91
Consistent 93
Farewell 95 again
In the Mood for Love 98
I‧Waiting for 101
Cohabitants 104
Only in heaven there are 106
This Life 109
Many years later112
Day 115

Volume 3 <br />Postcard 121
Day after day 124
Masterpiece 127
Disappearance of Zhao Lu 129
Perfect Life 131
Wrong body 134
Confusion 137
I am Zeng Sanhao 139
Destiny 142
Flip 144
Transaction 146
The rest of my life 148
In our clean city150
That night we left the bar together 153