Big River
by Hongke
About This Novel
"Singer of the Western Regions, Poet of the Soul" Hong Ke's work collection series, highly appreciated by Li Jingze and Jia Pingwa. Among the mountains, rivers, earth and animals, people truly find the foundation of life. "Big River" is a novel in Hong Ke's "Tianshan Series" and is his representative work. It tells the legendary story of Lao Jin's family in the Altai Military Reclamation Area: an unruly female soldier fell in love with a young clerk, but was considered to have violated military discipline. The young clerk was transferred to the animal husbandry class to herd sheep, but was later eaten by a white bear. The female soldier ran into the forest alone in search of her lover, and returned to the reclamation area half a year later with her child. Lao Jin later became the child's father...
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