《在细雨中呼喊》是余华的首部长篇小说，也是其风格转型之作。作品以儿童视角回忆叙述，塑造了具有孤独、叛逆、早熟等鲜明特征的儿童形象，这些形象的生成与余华童年经历、成长的时代背景以及受到的外国文学影响有关。该小说以其独特的儿童叙事视角，为文本带来了陌生化的美学效果，儿童视角和成人视角交织在一起，形成了文本的复调特征。同时，儿童视角叙述打破了成人话语惯性，使得文本话语真实可信，并达到了极具讽刺和冲击力的效果。

Cries in the Drizzle is Yu Hua's first full-length novel, and also a work of stylistic transformation. Narrated from a child's point of view, the work portrays children who are lonely, rebellious, and precocious, and the generation of these images is related to Yu Hua's childhood experience, the background of his growing up era, and the influence of foreign literature. The novel brings the aesthetic effect of strangeness to the text because of its unique children's narrative perspective, and the interweaving of children's perspective and adult perspective forms the polyphonic character of the text. At the same time, the children's perspective narration breaks the inertia of adult discourse, makes the text discourse real and believable, and achieves the effect of great irony and impact.