The shortlist for the Booker International Award did not improve Zhang Chu's life much. After all, it was just a nomination. If you win the award, you will definitely have unexpected results.

When those news were covered up by other news, except for the Chinese version of "Pi's Fantasy Drift", it rose against the trend on the book sales list, and the highest level once rebounded to the eighth place in a single day.

At this time, it has been almost three months since the physical book "Ghost Blows Out the Light" was launched. This book has not been erased by time, but it tends to become more and more courageous!

I always hover in the top 50 of the single-day sales list, only occasionally falling once or twice, and never going down the rest of the time. The call for annual sales champion is getting higher and higher!

On the contrary, after Zhang Chu's sales of "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" released in March maintained a peak for a period of time, almost four weeks have passed, and he can only see traces at the end of the sales rankings.

This is a work that requires reputation. Although it has received countless praises in the next month, the time is too short.

"The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" is a work that can be sold slowly in the next few decades, so Zhang Chu was not worried about its sales.

Maybe it's relatively low now, but if you can enjoy yourself at the end of the rankings every year, the accumulated sales will definitely be very considerable.

In my previous life, there were too many channels to promote "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli". Many university teachers were spontaneously helping with publicity, and there were also popular TV series to help.

Zhang Chu has not yet pushed his influence to that level in his life, but his efficiency is not slow. The "Fifteenth Year of Wanli" with a total sales of 690,000 copies has been the best-selling academic work in recent years!

This is just its first month of sales, and many works that are specifically aimed at sales have not reached this level.

In the final analysis, even if Zhang Chu’s reputation is blessed, it is impossible for this academic work to become popular directly. Zhang Chu does not have that great charm and ability yet.

The book is being sold calmly, and "Soushen Ji" has also entered the subsequent plot and started to charge on the Internet, with a very high reading rate!

On Yuandian Chinese, almost half of the readers who collect it are subscribed to this book, and the sales momentum on the shelves is very popular.

This also made Chen Bald Head very pleased. At least that 10 million yuan did not lose, but instead made more money!

The only regret is that their origin was simply to buy the electronic copyright, and if the other channels were published "Soushen Ji", they would have to share the profits with Zhang Chu.

Nowadays, online literature is quite developed. It is impossible for hundreds of millions of online readers to only use one client, and many people are reading in a dispersed manner.

"Soushen Ji" Yuandian Chinese website is true, but Yuandian Chinese website also authorized it to other channel dealers, allowing readers to find Zhang Chu's works on QQ or WeChat reading.

The benefits of this part must not be underestimated. Many networks may not have much royalties for subscriptions at Original, which is something that is hard to come by!

Therefore, after "Soushen Ji" started charging, in addition to the monthly electronic buyout fee, you can also get the channel dealer's royalties and continuously contribute to Zhang Chu's wallet.

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Compared to the strangeness of the Booker Prize among the Chinese people, the British are very kind to it.

Every year, millions and millions of readers are counting on finding suitable works from Booker Award nominations to read.

This is a feast for literary lovers!

All works that appear on the Booker Prize long list have seen sales increase to varying degrees this week.

The work of American writer Paul Oster "4321" attracted more than 120,000 people to read, and the discussion was amazing.

Irish writer Sebastian Barry used "Endless Days" to bring readers to the battlefield. A pair of friends in the army discovered the meaning and vitality of life on the battlefield and met a girl who might bring them happiness.

I hope this is not another text version of the Pearl Harbor movie. Even if the arrogant British don’t buy it, they still sold more than 70,000 copies in one week, setting a single-week sales record for this book!

Unpopular works such as "The History of Wolves", "All Way to the West", "Reservoir No. 13" have all entered the eyes of literary enthusiasts to relieve their longing.

Among these works, "Pi's Fantasy Drift" shows from the beginning that in addition to its extraordinary best-selling, both the subject matter and the author have made the British people extremely curious.

This is also the highest-selling movie on the Booker Awards list this week, and it actually sold 210,000 copies in the UK!

The effects of award-winning works in the past few years were not so great, and the works that were still in the nomination stage could make such great progress, which surprised the commentators.

So much so that in the classroom of the Department of Literature at Cambridge University, the literature professor was discussing the various things contained in "Youth Pi" with the elite students in the podium.

"The young Pi is different from many traditions. Its narrative technique adopts a single focus mode, and the single perspective makes the sense of substitution strong."

The white guy wearing a hoodie was talking, and the professor was analyzing the surface from the inside, so he volunteered to answer.

With a dark-printed shirt, a brown fur vest, and an iconic Mediterranean hairstyle, the professor looks almost fifty years old.

The homework he assigned to students last week was to read "The Fantasy Drift of the Young Pi", which can only be discussed after everyone reads it.

"Charlie said it well. Readers deconstruct the story through strict first-person characters. Coupled with their own fantasy characteristics, this movie creates a special reading experience for readers. The real and true in it are also the main reasons that attract readers."

In ordinary people imagine that in the literature class at Cambridge University, we must discuss "Les Miserables", "Flying Over the Crazy Asylum" or Shakespeare's works.

But they know how to keep pace with the times. This place has always been a place for free exchange of opinions from various new ideas. They know how to analyze excellent works from the outside world, rather than just resisting them.

The professor continued: "In terms of the overall structure of "Young Pi", the storyline is not strong due to the jumping and tearing of the narrative structure, and the form is quite characteristic of postmodern stream of consciousness. Overall, there are two narrative lines, who can talk about these two lines?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a pair of hands were raised in the classroom. The professor casually pointed, "Matthew, tell me. It seems that you are very confident."

This black man named Matthew actually looked a bit bookish, which was very inconsistent with the normal person's first feeling about black people.

"I think in Zhang's work, one narrative line is the experience of the past school, the other is the description of the present school, and the two narrative timelines have their own independent chapters. The former adds a large number of religious descriptions in the narrative process, reflecting that the school received a variety of religious education in her youth, and also provides a certain basis for the subsequent text. The latter reflects the school's understanding of faith after experiencing disasters."

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The discussion in the classroom is still continuing, but "Boyant Pi" has attracted the attention of many professional book reviewers and magazines.

Before being nominated by the Booker Award, "Youth Pi" could be said to be unknown in the UK, but now it has entered the sight of professionals.

They all want to know what kind of surprises the Chinese writer who was shortlisted for the Booker Award for the first time will bring, and what kind of fantastic drifting journey an ordinary teenager will have.

British Prime Minister Theresa May took time to read this work while busy, and left a very high evaluation!

She believes that the book is an elegant proof of God's existence, perfectly demonstrating the power of the story.

Speaking of British book review culture, we have to mention the Times Literary Supplement and the London Book Review Magazine. The former is hailed as the most outstanding humanistic book review and cultural magazine in contemporary times.

Founded in 1902, it was published in the form of a weekly magazine. The editorial and business are actually independent of the Times.

The London Review of Books is a special book review magazine, as famous as the New York Times book review column. It was once a gift sold in the New York Review of Books, and it was eventually released independently.

This is also because the New York Book Review magazine contains too many sources from the UK. This is not only a book review magazine, but also publishes poetry.

Faced with an annual English ceremony like the Booker Prize, the Times Literature Supplement also analyzed the nominated works.

They have a very high evaluation of "Youth Pi" and even gave a five-star recommendation in the book review: "Turn the impossible into possible. It pushes the imagination of literature to another new frontier, both fantasy and weird, but also naive, realistic and meaningful. The fantasy journey of the boy finally turned into an amazing reading journey."

"London Book Review" is consistent with its old rival and does not sing a opposite tune. The book reviewer believes that this book is full of temptation to make people feast on because it is so beautiful that it is so beautiful that it can't bear to repeat its plot. Thrilling, suspense, fluency and faith are a wonderful meal that readers of any era will not reject, let alone today?

"This is the most strange, but also the easiest to read in many years. "Youth Pi" combines strange stories, fables and moral stories." This is a cross-border evaluation from the Economist magazine.

"Edinburgh Review" even wrote an essay, not a comment on "Youth Pi". It happened from the Youth Pi, and ideally returned to this book, giving Zhang Chu an unprecedented praise.

“This wonderful language story has an unexpected ending, a bold and outstanding work.”

"The connotation is rich and cannot be ignored. However, the connotation is too broad and cannot enter the ranks of classics of the times because it is too shallow."

"The series of works about God's will, the power of narratives and the tenacity of human spirit shocked readers."

"Zhang Chu created an adult adventure. This is not because the content has sensitive content or violence that is not suitable for children, but because this fantasy story that makes people feel immersive and fascinating is a profound theme about spirituality and self-knowledge."

"A charming and meaningful adventure, the name of Richard Parker reminds me of the beach cannibal case that shocked the world when I was studying at the Law School many years ago. It turns out that Zhang Chu's creative inspiration actually came from this!"

The book reviews of the magazine "Blackwood" are unique. They did not spend too much effort on the story of "Young Pi", but instead focused on Richard Parker.

When Zhang Chu was not hyping up, most readers and book reviewers never thought that they could trace the creative inspiration from the name of the Bengal tiger!

For ordinary readers, isn’t Richard Parker just registered the wrong name?

What's curious about this?

But for lawyers and law students, this case is too familiar!

In 1884, the sensational beach cannibal case occurred in the UK. The Queen vs. Dudley and Stephens case, a far-reaching criminal case involving cannibalism after a shipwreck. He defended himself according to maritime practices and established a common law precedent that a critical state cannot constitute a reasonable defense of the murder charge.

If you are not a professional, you will not remember the case and the names of the victims in it.

Fortunately, the book reviewer of Blackwood happens to be a working law school professor. He only finished this criminal case that had a great impact to his students not long ago.

When the Oxensis was silent, four crew members were trapped in the South Atlantic Ocean. In addition to the three crew members, there was also a 17-year-old male servant named Richard Parker. While drifting on the vast sea, three adult crew members killed the orphan Richard Parker and shared his meat, so they survived!

It turns out that this name is not that simple!

Almost all British readers were shocked by the content disclosed in this book review!

"There is actually a prototype for "Pi" and it's a British?"

"Poor Richard Parker, may God be with you."

"It's so ironic to name a tiger by the name of the edible victim, and this tiger is a metaphor for the cannibalist!"

"I remembered the article by Allan Poe, which also contains the story of Richard Parker's cannibalism. Why didn't we find the connection?"

"God, it turns out that I didn't understand this article at all. I have to read it again!"

"It's so cruel, I suddenly don't dare to look at it."

The readers were a little happy. It turned out that there was such an easter egg hidden in this book, and they felt quite knowledgeable.

There are also many people who feel chill when they discover this reality and see this unique name.

Many readers are surprised by borrowing the allusions of the British and using them for themselves. Why did they discover such works?

The announcement of Richard Parker's name naturally turned "Youth Pi" from a foreign writer to a local work, and also made the Bocai organization quickly modify the odds.
Chapter completed!