Chewing Iron Filings takes the timeless and deeply relatable theme of life's ultimate journey as its narrative focus. Through a trilogy structure, it vividly portrays the life choices of countless ordinary people, blending eternal questions with everyday experiences and worldly emotions.

Starting with daily life, the novel opens up a clear world using delicate and realistic techniques. The story covers all aspects of real life, from youth to middle age, from rural to urban, from reality to dreams, from sensibility to rationality, from birth to death, encompassing everything and embracing every aspect of real life.

Chewing Iron Filings consists of three volumes, depicting numerous common life choices faced by people.

The first volume talks about Hou Che, an office lady born in the 1980s, who returns home after an emotional crisis and reconciles with her surrounding environment after witnessing a series of misfortunes experienced by relatives and classmates.

The second volume is about Hou's ex-boyfriend Lu Guanyu, a busy programmer who quits his job and rents a house in a suburb of Shanghai, where he is touched by a group of kind people and understands the meaning of love.

The third book focuses on Hou's younger brother Gao Jinhan, a fresh graduate, who is tempted by a fat salary to work on an island where he witnesses the tough choices made by the people around him.

Price: 108 yuan

Pages: 824

Author: Fu Yuehui

Publication date: June 2023

Publisher: Phoenix Literature & Art Publishing Ltd

ISBN: 9787559472915