The Southern Boy and the Forgetful Old Man

A collection of short stories by Niuyou Xiaosheng. The recurring characters of the novel, including the young man, Kakak, and the old man, connect the world constructed by the author.

Reality and absurdity have always been intertwined and intertwined in our lives, sometimes coexisting peacefully, and sometimes tangling together.

Hong Kong novelist Han Lizhu wrote a preface and recommended:
"While reading this novel, I was sometimes struck by the characters' indifferent attitude towards all the oppression and even evil in life. The danger, cruelty, injustice, and pain hidden by the careful balance and safety of daily life are given space to unfold through the distanced, sometimes sharp, and sometimes ironic text. Yet, the novel is still full of warmth, because the narrator never ignores the voices on the margins."

Butter Boy

In fact, at the beginning he just wanted to write funny stories, but by chance he won the Huazong Prose Award. In the eyes of many people, this became a misnomer, and they began to persuade him to change his name.

In 1987, Niu You’s real identity (Chen Yuxin) was born in Johor Baru, Johor, the same year as Operation Lalang. In the same year, a Marxist conspiracy incident also occurred in Singapore, and many innocent people were arrested. Niu You had no knowledge of these things while growing up.

Niu You has written two collections of essays: The Lightness of the Bourgeois Like Allergy and Men and Women on the Train. Besides Hua Zong, he has also won the Liang Shiqiu Essay Award.

Yes, it’s all related to prose. Niu You’s journey in novel writing has taken the first funny step.
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