"Wildfire" is a realistic novel written by modern writer Wang Luyan. Through the survival plight of farmer Watson and his brother Gesheng's family under the multiple attacks of natural disasters, social oppression and bad feudal habits, the novel profoundly reveals the deep crisis in the rural areas of old China and the suffering fate of the people at the bottom.
The work depicts Watson's stubborn and unyielding image of daring to fight with delicate brushstrokes, which is in sharp contrast to his brother Gesheng's "Amitabha" character of forbearance and concession, and shows the choices and struggles of different characters in the torrent of fate.
"Wildfire" is not only a rural novel describing the suffering of farmers due to natural and man-made disasters, but also a masterpiece that deeply reflects on social injustice, class oppression, and the good and evil of human nature.
With his calm and sympathetic writing style, Wang Luyan reproduced the turmoil and changes in rural society of that era, showing the vitality and spirit of resistance that set a prairie fire like wildfire, which has important realist value in the history of modern Chinese literature.
