Four Generations Under One Roof (Two Volumes)

"Four Generations Under One Roof" is Lao She's most important novel in the 1940s. The novel takes the Xiaoyangquan Hutong in Peiping during the Anti-Japanese War as the specific environment for the story to unfold. Through complex conflicts and entanglements, the Qi family in the Hutong is the main one, supplemented by the Qian family, Guan family and other residents. It depicts the images of many ordinary people from all walks of life at that time. The characters include old-style citizens, new-style citizens, foreign-style citizens and urban poor, involving many characters from the Five Elements and Eight Works, three religions and nine streams; through their humiliation, The tragic experience reflects the panic, survival, and peaceful social mentality of the citizens of Peiping during the eight-year Anti-Japanese War, and reproduces their slow, painful and difficult awakening process when the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed. Through the growth history, emotional history and life history of each of these little characters, it epically demonstrates the "grand theme" - the cruelty of war, the destruction of human civilization and life by war, the ups and downs of national destiny and the national spirit.