Chinese / People's Republic of China
Kan jian lu
(To see the deer)
Mu Ye
(text)
Ni, Wen
(illus.)
Yan Cheng
(illus.)
En Yang
(illus.)
Nanning: Jie li chu ban she (Jieli Publishing House), 2020. – 203 p.
ISBN 978-7-5448-6623-1
Deer | Nature | Life | Short story
Reading age: 6+
White Ravens issue: 2021
Mr. Deer sets off on a journey with a tall hat on his head, carrying just a small suitcase. On the way, he not only sees fantastic things and happenings, but also becomes part of a fantastic world himself. He witnesses the beauty of flowers, leafs, birds and clouds. He helps save an orphan fox’s name from being forgotten. He works a miracle for a little pebble who wants to believe that it can be more than a pebble. He encounters a sorrowful chair who learns that its dreams can never come true, a baby elephant whose birthday wish is to never grow tusks. Mr. Deer’s journey takes readers back to the time when in the eyes and hearts of the people everything in the world was still alive and every name was cherished. This collection of short stories has a charming flavour due to its idiosyncratic combination of prose and poetry, joyfulness and sentimentality. Mu Ye is the pseudonym of 1985-born writer and translator Huang Danping. She is the author of “Fei niao wu yu” (The book of flying birds). [FW, ZX]