Flying Across the Pacific
by Wang Yu
About This Novel
The novel provides a multi-faceted humanized description of the protagonist, Dean Xia Kun. During his trip to the United States, he met his long-lost first love Shi Yingqi, who was studying for a Ph. D., His ex-wife Ning Xiujuan who was married to a Chinese-American boss, his favorite female graduate student Zhang Xiaochun who gave up medicine and went into business, Shi Yingqi's ex-husband and their children, and others. This resulted in a series of strong collisions of real life and personal emotions. The work is highly readable. It contains patriotic feelings, career pursuits, changes in marriage and love, ethical conflicts, and all kinds of suspense brought about by the contingency of life. Taking the description of the life and destiny of Chinese intellectuals as the running thread, there are complicated differentiation and reorganization among the characters, expressing the irreversible consequences of life and the complexity of life. It shows their living conditions that are no longer mysterious when going abroad under the background of market economy. The accelerated pace of life and the rapid commute over the Pacific Ocean triggered this touching story.
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