生命册

Wu Zhipeng, an orphan fed and raised by every household of Wuliang village on the Central Plain, is sent by the villagers to university and becomes a young lecturer in the provincial capital, longing to be a true city man. Notes from his foster father, the village party secretary, each beginning "as if you saw me in person", keep arriving with requests on behalf of the villagers. He quits teaching and follows his friend Luo Guodong, nicknamed the Camel, into ghostwriting popular books and then the stock market. His story alternates with chapters on the people of the village: the gifted carpenter Liang Wufang, broken by a political campaign; the tiny Chong Sao, who steals to feed her three children; and others shaped by half a century of change, from the collective era to the market economy.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Migration, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

China

First published

2012 by Writers Publishing House

Author's age

59 when first published

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