The Age of Returning to the City (two Volumes)
About This Novel
Liang Xiaosheng's series of novels about the educated youth of the Beidahuang Corps constitute a unique landscape in the "educated youth literature" with grand momentum, magnificent scenes, numerous characters, a long time span, and a particularly broad scope. Almost every full-length work has the above distinctive characteristics, and when combined together, they have an overall more "epic" charm. "Returning to the City" is Liang Xiaosheng's masterpiece. It tells the joys and sorrows of several families of educated youth who returned to the city and lived in Harbin in the 1980s. It reflects the struggle and pain of a generation after passion. The novel takes the development and entanglements of the fates of Lin Chaoran, He Ningzhi, Luo Yimin, Yang Yifan, Zhang Jihong and other characters as the main line. It artistically, multi-angle and multi-level shows the hardship, confusion, hesitation, bitterness and even despair of the life experienced by the educated youth after returning to the city. However, they never bowed to fate or surrendered to life. Through struggle and hard work, they finally found their place and belonging.
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