Four Generations Under One Roof (Volume 1 and 2)

"Four Generations Under One Roof" is a million-word novel written by the Chinese writer Lao She. This is a novel that shows the lives of ordinary people and the Anti-Japanese War in the occupied areas of Peiping during the Anti-Japanese War. There are three parts in the book. The book is set in the Xiaoyangquan Hutong in Peking. Through complex conflicts and entanglements, the Qi family in the Hutong is the main one, supplemented by the Qian family, the Guan family and other residents. It depicts the images of many ordinary people from all walks of life at that time; the choice of resistance and obedience, the choice of the country and the individual, and various difficult choices are intertwined, profoundly showing the difficult and tortuous path that ordinary people have traveled in the historical process of the great era. "Four Generations Under One Roof" is Lao She's largest work and longest writing work. It is also a monument to Anti-Japanese War literature and even modern Chinese literature. It is the only full-length Anti-Japanese War novel that positively describes the lives of ordinary people during the Anti-Japanese War. "Four Generations Under One Roof" is what Lao She considered his best and most satisfying work during his lifetime.