Return to the City (complete Collection)
About This Novel
"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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God played another joke on him, and all the temporary workers were fired. And the harshest fact is that his return to the city was hidden from his father, and that his younger brother died.
Whether things in the world are perverse, flashy, or absurd and crazy, none of them are sustainable.
She gave me a comprehensive understanding of the ideological and life conditions of the educated youths who were sent to the countryside at that time. Their spirit of working hard and doing everything possible to complete the task in a difficult environment is worth learning. We currently lack this kind of education and training.
The lives and experiences of educated youth are unforgettable.
In that era, what we heard and saw from childhood to adulthood were all critical voices. It seemed that after being crushed by the times, everyone was a loser. But this book allowed me to see the huge changes brought about by thinking. In any era, universality and particularity exist. Only changes in thinking can widen the distance of running.
Our lives are the result of our choices. He chose a deputy director who could serve the public. At this time, he also had a vague lover, his sister-in-law.
The plot unfolds. The educated youth has returned to the city. The problems he encounters are working and supporting his family. Lin Chaoran earns money by doing manual labor. For the sake of his wife and the child in her belly, a man must support his family.
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Official(7)Scraped 11d ago
God played another joke on him, and all the temporary workers were fired. And the harshest fact is that his return to the city was hidden from his father, and that his younger brother died.
Whether things in the world are perverse, flashy, or absurd and crazy, none of them are sustainable.
She gave me a comprehensive understanding of the ideological and life conditions of the educated youths who were sent to the countryside at that time. Their spirit of working hard and doing everything possible to complete the task in a difficult environment is worth learning. We currently lack this kind of education and training.
The lives and experiences of educated youth are unforgettable.
In that era, what we heard and saw from childhood to adulthood were all critical voices. It seemed that after being crushed by the times, everyone was a loser. But this book allowed me to see the huge changes brought about by thinking. In any era, universality and particularity exist. Only changes in thinking can widen the distance of running.
Our lives are the result of our choices. He chose a deputy director who could serve the public. At this time, he also had a vague lover, his sister-in-law.
The plot unfolds. The educated youth has returned to the city. The problems he encounters are working and supporting his family. Lin Chaoran earns money by doing manual labor. For the sake of his wife and the child in her belly, a man must support his family.
