Four

Author: Liu Xinwu
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This book is another long masterpiece by Liu Xinwu, the winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize, following "Bell Tower and Drum Tower" and "Whispers of the Wind." The author employs a calm, slightly melancholic, and insatiably inquisitive tone, through the joys and sorrows, life and death songs of the Jiang family and related social groups, reflecting the evolution and transformation of China's history in this century. It weaves together many ordinary and extraordinary emotional journeys, yet mercilessly tears open and interrogates the generally innocent souls of ordinary people, urging readers to deepen their insight into themselves and others through the process of exploring the hidden depths. In a certain sense, this book is also an illustrative white paper exposing and condemning the extreme left-wing line.