Ordinary World

Author: Lu Yao
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: A Plain World is a realistic novel and also a fictionalized family history. The author highly condenses the historical changes in the rural areas of northwest China, achieving a perfect unity of ideological depth and artistic quality. Especially the spirit of the protagonist's struggle against adversity remains inspiring for today's university students. It is a panoramic novel that portrays the contemporary urban and rural social life in China. The entire work consists of three volumes. Against a broad background of nearly a decade, the author, through complex conflicts and entanglements, portrays the images of ordinary people from all social strata. Labor and love, setbacks and pursuits, suffering and joy, daily life and grand social conflicts are intricately interwoven, profoundly showing the arduous and winding path taken by ordinary people through the historical process of the great era.