Loud and desolate plains

Author: Dang Yimin
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Publish Date: 2002-04-01
Features: This is a wild and fierce epic about the livelihood of the western region, serving as a literary interpretation of the historical process of modern China. The desolate wasteland, revealing the pain of the earth and remaining silent for thousands of years, was changed by an unexpected earthquake. Like a prophecy of fate, the quiet wasteland began to buzz with chaos. The Mo family, which had thrived in this land for generations, was swept into the tumultuous tides of the 20th century. The giant bandit Bai Lang, the overthrow of the Qing dynasty, the Shaanxi North Red Army, the anti-Japanese, the conflict between the KMT and CCP, famine and plague—all the dramatic transformations left the people of Mo Village bewildered and exhausted. Over decades, "the head of the family" Mo Pengju repeatedly faced dangers with the elders of the village, only to lead them through crises time and again. But the truly fatal danger, always present and never removed, was the feud and violence among relatives of the same clan. In the end, the old master of Mo was cruelly murdered by his own relatives, and the vast Mo family nearly collapsed. By then, spring had arrived, and the survivors who had escaped the disaster began to rebuild their new homes.