Blood-red dusk

Author: Lao Gui
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: Eight years of life on the Inner Mongolia grasslands, with a mountain of words to express. He picked up his pen and wrote everything down. In those turbulent times, wherever there were educated youth, there were many heart-wrenching stories. This book is just a tiny grain of sand in the vast ocean of them. It's not a novel. Compared to those delicate and elegant literary works of art, it can only be considered a stone in the wilds. No matter how the wind blows, the snow falls, the sun shines, or the rain pours, this muddy stone will quietly lie on the land of northern China. This is the true experience of a Beijing educated youth in Inner Mongolia. In the winter of 1968, the protagonist Lin Hu and his companions walked to Inner Mongolia and voluntarily rooted for the frontier. After the unit was established, he began to be persecuted for giving advice to the instructor and was eventually labeled as a current counter-revolutionary. In the life of being abandoned by friends and relatives and subjected to special control, he spent eight years in the bottom rung of society. During this time, he constantly and struggled, only to be constantly persecuted. This soul full of tragedy is honest and straightforward, half angel, half devil. He believes in fists, is stubborn and combative, constantly hitting walls, yet he hates injustice and is unyielding, neither flattering nor pretentious. The author uses the protagonist's experiences as the main thread to show readers the life and psychological state of the Inner Mongolia production and construction corps soldiers at that time. In the storm, more than 60 cotton quilts were spread over the seed storage room; in the raging fire, 69 young lives turned into black charcoal in an instant; on the way to send a comrade to university, more than 50 female educated youth collectively wailed. Tragically, the labor of tens of thousands of educated youth, working day and night to cultivate the land, only resulted in the beautiful grassland being gradually desertified. The language of the entire book is strong and rough, the color is somber and fierce, the connotation is rich and real, leaving readers in awe and reflection. After the book was published, it caused a sensation across the country and was reprinted many times.