Review for Yuan's Place

Yuan's Place is a collection of prose, fiction and poetry of writer Sha Yan's recent work. It tells about life, beauty, spirit and love. In this little book, writer tries to tell stories with aspects of life and expectation, as well as love. The book contains eighteen pieces of writings including some beautiful poetry reflecting life, some short and medium fictions about life, love and career and some interesting prose praising the life. It shows the writer's interesting touch of English, his sense of beauty and his intelligence.

In Sha Yan's prose "Suburban", he describes the living in the suburban area and praise such living with his beautiful touch of English. In his mini story "It snowed the night after dawn", he narrates a well educated careerless restaurant delivery person and tells his thoughs about his current life in a beautiful snow day. In the short story " Bird that flies", he narrates an engineer who was just hired by a high tech. start up company and tells how his life is like in a realism fashion. The main theme of the collection "Yuan's Place" is a story about love and life, writer narrates the story with his special touch in English about a young professional's life and his love relationship with his wife, Yuan. When Yuan went away to America to find her dream, he missed her, but finally he engaged in a new love relationship with a girl who loves him, Winnie. It features the Yuan (Buddhism belief) thinking and tells the conflict in nowaday Chinese marriage.

Sha Yan is romantic, which shows in this work, "Yuan's Place". In this work, he shows his tacit felling about beauty and nature, not only simplely writings about love and life. The book is spiritual and it has contents of Buddhism, Chritiananity and the love and nature of Taoism. It is the contents themself are interesting. Without being very descriptive, Sha Yan has a clean and beautiful touch of English language. It would be pleasant reading experience reading “Yuan’’s Place”.