Read your father

Author: Ma Xiaoli
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: The true story this book wants to tell you—this is the highest-ranking martyred Volunteer Army soldier on the Korean War battlefield, whose son was only 48 days old when he died. The young and beautiful mother concealed her husband's identity from their son, keeping the secret for eighteen years. Eighteen years later, the father's comrades and the mother together told the son about his father's story. From then on, the son learned his father's name and also knew the name the father once gave him. This is a metal box filled with the father's belongings. The son took the box, which had accompanied his father through battles, from his mother's hands and saw the words left behind by his father. The son, who had never met his father, could only sense his father's presence through these belongings and could only get close to him and understand him through reading. The book enters from the perspectives of the daughter-in-law and the son, guiding readers to get closer to the martyred soldier and his family, as well as the people and events both during his lifetime and after his death. A complete image of a senior military commander is restored through heartfelt interpretation: A pure and noble human emotion is purified and elevated through this interpretation. The book enters from the perspectives of the daughter-in-law and the son, guiding readers to get closer to the highest-ranking martyred Volunteer Army soldier on the Korean War battlefield and his family, as well as the people and events both during his lifetime and after his death.