Liu Jiu, Swept Up in War

Liu Jiu, Caught Up in War

An epic of a people, forged in ice and fire! Set against the freezing battlefield of minus 40 degrees, The Battle at Lake Changjin shows Volunteer Army soldiers using their flesh and blood to stand against a tide of steel. The frozen soldiers of the "Ice Sculpture Company" become a monument to faith. And Symphony composes a hymn to humanity amid the artillery fire of the Fifth Campaign, as a scout and a battlefield nurse sound a tremulous note beyond hatred in the narrow space between life and death. When the melody of Arirang rises, Zhao Yulan, a young woman from Yimeng, melts the prison camp's iron bars with compassion, and the American soldier Pete Luther finds a home for his soul in the East. This century-long vigil spanning the Pacific gives voice to the most defiant reconciliation to rise from the ruins of war.

Han Mengze's Furious Steel takes us face-to-face with the battlefield's most primal tremors: the bloody journey of a company from its departure to the death of every last soldier. Their vow to "fight to the last man" forges the backbone of a nation rising to its feet. In My Brothers and Sisters of Pi Village, Yuan Ling continues to turn his gaze toward lives on the margins, giving workers a voice in the halls of literature.

With unsparing prose, these works cut through the fault lines of history. Frozen letters, bloodstained orders, and love notes from the trenches all become stars illuminating the universe of the national spirit.