Guo Longbing

Author: Liu Yumin
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Another long work by the winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize, Liu Yumin, following his novel The Turbulent Autumn. It showcases the dramatic and vast maritime landscape of the Jiaodong Peninsula in China before and after the founding of the nation over more than fifty years. The work realistically and vividly recreates the social dynamics and evolution of class and family relationships in China during the second half of the 20th century, composing a magnificent epic history of China's earth-shattering changes and soul-stirring transformations over half a century.
Yan Dali, the captain, killed the wealthy landlord and big capitalist Zhuo Liqun with lightning strikes and took the fifth concubine Xiao Yueyue as his wife. The Political Commissar of the regiment, Zhan Gongfu, wanted to deal with Yan Dali according to military law, but Yan Dali quickly fled with Xiao Yueyue, leaving behind a grudge between the Yan, Zhan, and Zhuo families.
The time span extends from the Liberation War to the Reform and Opening Up. The unbreakable enmity and emotional entanglement between the three families, as well as the inextricable fate of their three generations of descendants, intertwine and continue for over fifty years, staging a legendary tale of human life.