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“The best qualities of someone or something are often found on the surface, and that's where we all spend our lives. Everyone has an inner life but it's best to leave it alone. Because the moment you make a hole in that paper window, the vast majority of what's inside clearly won't withstand scrutiny.”
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Cui installs sound systems. There are two types of customers: Those who know and those who do not know. The common feature of both groups is this: they are confident in what they know.
Cui lives a quiet life with his older sister and brother-in-law. He commutes to work, does not separate music from his life, and does not pursue big ambitions.
But one day he meets a customer who will change his life. And that customer wants: The best sound system in the world..
Cui rolls up his sleeves, as if it's the last thing he'll give in his life.
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I met another new writer with his first work in our language (which I also liked). Gei Fei, which has a language that does not tire, is read with curiosity.
The social analysis that permeates most works of Chinese literature is also present in this work. While the events were happening; The character also questions capitalism... The succumbing of tastes and cultural accumulation to the wheels, and the limitlessness of things that those who have money can buy.
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The author makes the reader feel his detailed attention to music in many parts of the work. This brings to mind a name I love and makes me smile: Haruki Murakami!
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Giray Fidan, whose enjoyable translation I read Sun Zi's Art of War and Confucius's Speeches, brings this work to our language.
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The cover is the work of Cüneyt Çomoğlu.