“In this world, there was another complexity, another wisdom, another philosophical depth and another greatness... There were both very stupid and reckless people and many geniuses. In this deep earth there lived people like small grasses, but also people as big as tall pillars.”

In The Ordinary World, Lu Yao wanders through the layers of human nature and social tragedy, introducing us to “ordinary” people in China, in the difficult years after the Cultural Revolution, engaged in a deadly struggle, a stubborn resistance. Anyone who has struggled throughout their lives, who has challenged themselves and their fate for once, is considered a hero in The Ordinary World: These are the people who do not lose their strength even in the most miserable conditions while being swept away in the flood of time, who do not give in under any circumstances.

Ordinary World, one of the masterpieces of Chinese literature, which also bears traces of Lu Yao's own tragic life, is in Turkish for the first time with the careful translation of Giray Fidan and Tang Guozhong.