Moyan Best: Reunion with Comrades

Author: Mo Yan
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Features: Thirteen years after the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, Major General Zhao Jin returns to his hometown for a visit. The blocks his way home, but he luckily encounters his long-lost comrade and childhood playmate—Qian Yinghao and Guo Jinku. Past events are like smoke, Qian Yinghao, a natural-born soldier, clever and heroic, becomes a victim of the enemy's bullets without firing a single shot; Guo Jinku returns to his hometown after the war, impoverished and still immersed in his former military life. The spiritual dialogue between humans and ghosts reveals the differences and confusions between the realms of the living and the dead, reality and the past.