Family and Country, the World

Author: Wang Xia
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: The novel Home, Country, and World is set against the backdrop of the more than half-century tumultuous battle journey of the People's Armed Police Forces, depicting the struggles of the officers and soldiers who fearlessly faced hardships and risked their lives to defend the motherland and its borders. It is a rare and outstanding military literary work in recent years. This is a historical tragedy. This is a tragedy of the era. The stories here—life and death, love and hate, joy and sorrow, beauty and ugliness—are not only the history of a generation's revolution and the tragedy of their love, but also the meeting of their lives, the clash of their spirits, and the confrontation of their souls. The story of the novel is full of twists and turns, with vivid characters, leaving readers breathless and deeply moved. When Chu Tai met and married Li Yuyi, a beautiful team leader of the work detachment, during a battle, LanNie'er, the woman he had a one-night stand with in his hometown, appeared with a ten-year-old child, demanding to join the revolution. To revolution or to love? This severe question was placed before Chu Tai. Chu Tai, a revolutionary soldier who had survived life-and-death trials on the battlefield, declared, "We must have revolution, and we must also have love." To avoid causing trouble for the one he deeply loved, Li Yuyi quietly left Chu Tai. Unbeknownst to her, by placing herself in a painful situation, she also threw the one she deeply loved into hell. After enduring the suffering of parting in love, they unexpectedly met again several years later. Could they continue their journey of love? Would they again succumb to the obstacles of society and family and separate once more? How deep is love? Why is its wings so heavy? When time passes, what fades away is not just time! As life nears its end, the soldiers who had spent their lives in battle had also endured humiliation and hardship for a lifetime. Yet, they suddenly realized that the decision that had been a mistake from the very beginning had doomed their lifelong love tragedy.