This year in the village, they are performing a grand opera.

Author: Yan Xuejun
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Publish Date: 2003-11-01
Features: This is a play full of fun, a play that startles and moves the soul. On stage, flags are waved and shouts are raised, weapons are held, real play with fake singing, off stage, they exchange blows, hidden schemes, fake play with real singing. This is a struggle between justice and evil, a struggle between survival and death, a struggle between humanity and bestiality, a battle between the soul and the flesh. A full-length novel reflecting the issue of rural collective asset loss across the country. This Year the Village Stages a Big Play is Xuejun's second full-length novel. The novel begins with a preface where it writes: "In recent years, people from top to bottom have been paying close attention to the serious loss of state assets, but few have thought about the serious loss of rural collective assets and the disaster it has caused to farmers." The book depicts two plays: the cultural performance play and the play about selling the well. The two stages intertwine, seemingly real and seemingly fake, but the play on the stage is far from the thrilling play on life's grand stage.