Spring in Winter: 2 Volumes (Complete Collection of Mao Dun Literature Award-Winning Works) (2019 Edition)

This is the first full-length novel created using the stream-of-consciousness technique in China. The novel takes Yu Erlong, the party committee secretary and director of a large military power plant, to return to his hometown of Shihu after more than thirty years to find the murderer who assassinated his wife Lu Hua. Through his three days and two nights of experience, knowledge and memories, it condenses his 40-year struggle life during the Anti-Japanese War, the Liberation War and the founding of the People's Republic of China, focusing on the guerrilla life and ten years of struggle from 1937 to 1947.