Sheng Tian Kou Men (Volume 1, 2, and 3)

Author: Liu Xinglong
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Features: Liu Xinglong spent six years of dedicated effort to complete his million-word long《St. Tianmenkou》 (in three volumes). This is a rare large-scale realistic novel in China in recent years. The story spans from the early 20th century to the late 1960s, focusing on the fates of two families—the Xue family and the Hang family—in Tianmenkou, a small town in eastern Hubei. It features over 50 characters, telling the "great destiny of ordinary people." The work profoundly reflects the changes in national fortune and individual destiny, as well as the brilliance and depravity of human nature. Liu Xinglong, known as a fast writer in the literary world, took six years to create this long novel. He said, "This long novel has been in the works for many years. After starting, I paused it several times and even abandoned nearly 200,000 words I had already written—it truly deserves the term 'dedicated effort.'" Parts of this 1.1 million-word novel have been published in magazines such as 《Contemporary》, and it has already attracted attention from critics. One critic remarked, "This is a work that has restructured the history of the 20th century in China."