遍地月光

Du Laozhuang, a village on the Central Plains, stands for rural China in the 1960s and 1970s. Huang Jinzhong belongs to a landlord family. His father died of typhoid after days of ploughing paddy fields in freezing spring water, and on New Year's Day his mother took her own life; his sisters were married off or given away, leaving him and his brother Yinzhong in the care of their uncle, himself a landlord, whom Jinzhong tries to keep at arm's length. Despised as the spawn of a landlord, he wants nothing more than a wife and a way out of a home of three bachelors. He pursues Zhao Zihua, also from a landlord family, but she hopes to marry a poor peasant's son to improve her standing, and in the end her mother uses her as part of a bride swap for one of her brothers.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Politics, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

China, 1960s–1970s

First published

2009 by Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House

Author's age

58 when first published