Second handshake

Author: Yang Zhang
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: This moving, lyrical novel, which was once circulated in the form of a handwritten manuscript during the Cultural Revolution, was hailed as "a lightning bolt that pierced through the dark night" and "gave a moment of warmth to thousands of people in the cold, indifferent night, moving an entire generation of Chinese people!" In those years, it ignited the flame of hope in the hearts of millions of readers, yet the author was arrested, imprisoned, and condemned to death as a result. After being exonerated in 1979, the novel was officially published, and its total print run of 4.3 million copies remains the highest for contemporary novels in the new era. Twenty-seven years later, the nationwide phenomenon The Second Handshake has once again "disappeared." With ingenuity and dedication, the author Yang Zhang spent three years in seclusion before finally unveiling the rewritten The Second Handshake. The rewritten The Second Handshake not only evokes the complex memories and emotions of that generation of Chinese people toward the past but will also once again move and even the Chinese people of today.