After about one hour and a half on Tuesday night, the 2021 Nobel literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah (sell) around 100, 000 copies of his novels. The book sale was at Chinese livestream show on the short video platform Douyin, (generate) a profit of over 4 million yuan ($570, 000). The number grew to 110, 000 copies later that night.
During his talk with English teacher-turned livestreamer Dong Yuhui, the Tanzanian-born British author, 76, shared Chinese netizens his hometown life immigrant experiences, his writing as an outside r and teaching as a literature professor. He added: "I have been (continuous) absorbing nourishment(营养) for creating from nostalgia (怀旧), pain and (silent). "
Dong managed (connect) Gurnah's life and writing with the numerous Chinese readers living and working far from home—Dong being one of them —who find difficult to fit in the new environment, mostly in big cities, but also difficult to go back home and stay.
The show was the last public event of Gurnah's first China trip that began on March 5, during he visited Shanghai, Ningbo of zhejiang province, and Beijing, giving lectures and holding dialogues with Chinese writers including Ge Fei, Sun Ganlu and Nobel laureate Mo Yan.
