- Mao Dun Literature Prize 2005 · Winner
历史的天空
Lishi de tiankong
“The Sky of History” (title translated by AI)
Xu Guixiang (徐贵祥, born 1959)
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On his way to fetch his bride, Jiang Daya is caught in a Japanese air raid at Lanqiaobu, and four young people escape the flames. Jiang, who meant to join the Nationalists, is taken in by the Communist New Fourth Army, while his fellow villager Chen Mohan, who wanted the Communists, is pressed into the Nationalist army. The novel follows their generation through the war against Japan, the civil war, Korea and the Cultural Revolution.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- War, Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- China, 1930s–1980s
- First published
- 2000 by People's Literature Publishing House
- Author's age
- 41 when first published