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When the university entrance exams return in the late 1970s, Ning Jia, who has drifted around the peninsula teaching himself, wins a place at a geological institute and falls in love with Bai Hui, the director's only daughter. He keeps quiet about his family. He is the sole heir of the peninsula's two most famous clans, whose members served in opposing camps; his father, a decorated Communist leader, was wrongly convicted, jailed and sent to forced labour, while Ning Jia grew up with his mother and grandmother in a hut in the coastal forest. Spread over ten parts and thirty-nine books, the novel follows Ning Jia, the generation born in the 1950s, and the histories of their fathers and families.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Family, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

China

First published

2010 by Writers Publishing House

Author's age

54 when first published