Dumplings
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This is an epic story about a northern rural family spanning thirty years. In the cold winter of 1960, the Zhao family's father starved to death after making a pot of dumplings with the last half kilogram of white bread. On his deathbed, he left only one sentence: "Dumplings must be available during the New Year." Since then, dumplings have become the blood totem of the family - in times of famine, they were thoughts mixed with chaff, in times of turmoil, they were black dough secretly kneaded in cowsheds, and after household responsibility system, they were the first meal of white flour and meat stuffing. Three generations of people struggled to survive in natural disasters, man-made disasters, and political waves. They were divided and reunited because of dumplings. When the paralyzed old village chief swallowed the last bite of dumplings in his life, the family bloodline completed the most painful reincarnation in the smoke of the twelfth lunar month. The book uses "dumplings" as needles and "disasters" as threads to stitch together a century-old loneliness of a Chinese peasant family watching for reunion atop the ruins.
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