Another Kind of Waste  /《另一種蹉跎》  

NAME:  Another Kind of Waste

Author: ZHANG GUAN

Category:  Novel

Language: ‎ Traditional Chinese

Pages: ‎ 258

ISBN-10:  ‎164784892X 

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1-64784-892-7

Item Weight: ‎ 381g

Dimensions: ‎ 15.24 x 1.47 x 22.86 cm

Published Time:  2015.12

Publisher: ‎ EHGBooks

DESCRIPTION:

Another Kind of Waste  is Zhang Guan's first novel. The simplified Chinese Edition of the novel Who Has Time Failed was published in 2007. The simplified Chinese Edition of the novel was abridged, also changed name when it was published. The traditional Chinese edition of the book was published in 2015, this is the unabridged edition and the name of the novel is back to its original name "Another Kind of Waste".

The novel shows the situation of high school students in China now. Wang Xiaoshi is a high school student in China. Every day, he tries to have fun in the boring Chinese style of studying live which is only for the exam. His classmate Old 7( nickname) is the one who has his own individual thoughts. He likes reading books that are out of textbooks, he does not like this kind of education in China, and he often conflicts with teachers and students in this system. Wang Xiaoshi is not as extreme as Old 7, but he supports him. Wang Xiaoshi likes a girl named Jia Liang in his class. However, the girl falls in love with Xiaoshi’s friend Ou Ou. Xiaoshi and Ou Ou become rivals in love. Xiaoshi’s classmate and friend, Sun Yiting, is depressed because the stress of her learning has taken a step backwards... After the college entrance examination in China, Xiaoshi feels empty in his heart, and finally, he loses all of his friends for different reasons. He suddenly discovers that he has lost his youth, which is the age likes flowers.

This is a black humor novel, the characters in the book create many funny things. The novel reveals the reality of Chinese high school students’ educational environment, encounter and emotional changes of these students, which shows a cruel young story and lets people introspect.

作品名稱：另一種蹉跎

作者：張冠

作品類型：長篇小説

語言：繁體中文

頁數：258

ISBN-10: ‎ 164784892X

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1-64784-892-7

重量：381g

尺寸：15.24 x 1.47 x 22.86 cm

出版時間：2015.12

出版公司：EHGBooks 

作品介紹：

《另一種蹉跎》是張冠創作的第一部長篇小説。該小説簡體中文版《誰把流光辜負了》於2007年在中國大陸出版。簡體中文版出版時内容進行了部分刪減，并且更換了小説名字。2015年該書繁體中文版出版，繁體中文版恢復了所有刪減内容，并且書名為最初的名字《另一種蹉跎》。

小説反映了中國大陸的一群高中學生的生活狀態。王曉石是一個普通的高中學生，他每天在枯燥的課堂學習中設法找到快樂。他喜歡上了班裡的文藝委員梁佳，但沒有勇氣向她表白。王曉石的同桌老七是一個喜歡讀書的有獨立見解的叛逆青年，經常與老師和同學發生意見上的沖突。王曉石不像老七那樣叛逆，但是他十分贊同老七。王曉石發現梁佳與自己的好朋友區歐成為了情侶，他與區歐的關係也發生了變化，由原來的好哥們變成了最後的情敵。與此同時，王曉石也與梁佳產生了隔閡。王曉石從小就認識的同學孫怡婷也由於學習退步和家庭原因產生了心理問題…… 高考結束後，王曉石感覺空虛。他發現由於各種原因失去了他身邊的每一個朋友，他也漸漸地發現他在不知不覺中已經失去了花季雨季的時光。

這是一本黑色幽默風格的小說，小說中的人物之間發生了很多有趣的事情。作品揭示了嚴酷的現實和大陸高中學生的生活和教育環境，以及在這種應試教育體制下學生的情感變化和遭遇，以此展現了一個殘酷的青春故事，並讓人反思。