Leaving a Small Town
by Lu Ming
About This Novel
A story about growth and change through the eyes of a child. In the 1980s and 1990s, in a peaceful small town in the south of the Yangtze River, there came a group of Shanghainese who were trapped by the times, as well as the children of educated youth and children of factories and mines who migrated with their parents. The young man rushed between the small town and Shanghai, like repeated practice. One day, they left the town and went to their own destiny. Looking back many years later, the Xia Jia Bridge, Dragon King Temple, pastry shop, arcade machine room, National Second Factory, and group portraits of generations apart in the small town have been rebuilt in a backwards way. A period of history and several generations of life are all answered in the years.
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