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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 been enduring hardships in the rural areas were forcibly sent to the site of Qiao Jiazhai Reservoir, a red flag project located at the border of Hubei and Anhui, before the Spring Festival. Wen Sanhe, a young man who had just graduated from high school, managed to avoid the fate of being sent down as a rural intellectual by leveraging his father's connections and arrived as a technician. Under the heavy labor and within the specific political environment, human nature 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 roamed rampant under the banner of political slogans. What was even more frightening was that everyone knew the beauty before and after was a beautiful lie, yet they all tacitly participated, achieving a historical lie with sweat, tears, and even blood for all sorts of hidden purposes, in vain. Through the process of deconstructing this historical lie, the novel reflects deeply on the not-so-distant past through the heart-wrenching contemplation of an ignorant youth. Reading it leaves one shaken to the core, wanting to weep with sorrow.