What Do You Want in Life?
by Bi Xiaonan
About This Novel
Following "Born to Be Human", Bi Xiaonan's new novel masterpiece writes a rhapsody about the fate of four generations of a family. Bi Xiaonan said: "Don't be afraid, don't hate, rely on yourself and seek some way to survive from this world." A brand-new touching story, a rhapsody about the fate of four generations of a family. The story takes the fate of an ordinary family on the Jiaodong Peninsula as a clue, extending from the late Qing Dynasty to 2023. Four generations span a century. In different eras, each generation has its own storms, and each generation has its own Long March. A life-or-death escape across a national border, a song of passion for women at the bottom of society, a silent challenge to kill the patriarchy... Golden lines appear frequently, and are called "the book of redemption in life" by readers. To live, one must believe in the possibility amidst the impossibility. The real major events in life all depend on the word "fate". All we can do is to tinker with the word "luck". Who an individual is, what he pursues, and how he chooses, the sum total of these constitutes a person's life. Bi Xiaonan tries to tell every ordinary person through this book: "Any ordinary person, no matter how humble, his life will be a great epic of his own as long as he tries his best to live."
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Official(1)Scraped 11d ago
My favorite book is actually online on the author's birthday
"What I Want in Life" is based on the story of four generations of Bi Fuhai's family and their ups and downs in destiny. Teacher Bi Xiaonan outlines the difficulties encountered by people in each era. While they were displaced, they climbed over the mountains of suffering. In them, we see all kinds of misfortunes, which always happen unexpectedly. But faced with an unpredictable fate, they did not stop and accept it, but mustered up the courage to continue to choose and break through their lives.
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Official(1)Scraped 11d ago
My favorite book is actually online on the author's birthday
"What I Want in Life" is based on the story of four generations of Bi Fuhai's family and their ups and downs in destiny. Teacher Bi Xiaonan outlines the difficulties encountered by people in each era. While they were displaced, they climbed over the mountains of suffering. In them, we see all kinds of misfortunes, which always happen unexpectedly. But faced with an unpredictable fate, they did not stop and accept it, but mustered up the courage to continue to choose and break through their lives.
