Sky-high

Author: Liu Xinglong
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Publish Date: 2002-04-01
Features: In the winter of 1973, a large number of farmers who had endured hardship in the countryside were forcibly sent to the Qiao Jiazhai Reservoir site, a red flag project located at the border of Hubei and Anhui. Wen Sanhe, a young man who had just graduated from high school, avoided the fate of being sent to the countryside as a youth worker. Through his father's connections, he also arrived there as a technician. Under the heavy labor and within the specific political environment, humanity was twisted and distorted under the name of revolution, love was violated and brutally attacked in the shadow of terror, and the evil within instinct ran rampant under the banner of political slogans. Even more frightening is that everyone knew that what lay ahead and behind was a beautiful lie, yet they tacitly participated in it for various hidden purposes, in vain using sweat, tears, and even blood to achieve a great historical lie! As the novel deconstructs this kind of historical lie, it exposes the deep reflections on the not-so-distant past through the heart-wrenching thoughts of an inexperienced youth. It leaves readers shaken to the core, filled with grief and tears.