Clashing blades and flashing swords: a century-long tale of vengeance between two prominent families.
The strong prey on the weak: a hundred years of rivalry in an ancient village.
The Great River Flows to the Sea tells the story of a great river nearing the sea, which divides two villages of the same clan, Fangjia Village and Fang Family Hamlet. Refugees who fled famine and hardship also settled in succession on Tiger Head Cliff at the river mouth, naming their village Tiger Head Village. Since the beginning of the last century, the three villages have stood in a tense balance, sometimes friends and sometimes foes. Through a series of stirring stories, they bring to life the modern history of rural China. Spanning a century and five generations, the novel offers a sweeping portrait of the historical changes in the Chinese countryside. With a keen sense of social reality and concern for ordinary people's lives, it returns to history, faces the present, and looks back on and reflects upon a century of turbulent and extraordinary events in China.
