The Fate of an Intellectual Youth in Forty Years Between White Mountains and Black Waters

Introduction to the novel "White Mountains and Black Waters" In the late autumn of 1968, a special train for educated youth sent thirty-six urban youths to the frozen Great Northern Wilderness. Shanghai girl Lin Xiaomei carries the gold coins her mother secretly sewed into her clothes, and Beijing young man Zhou Weidong carries a copy of "Pushkin's Selected Poems" disguised as the cover of "Red Flag". They meet the bold Harbin boy Zhao Jianguo, the cold Tianjin young man Wang Yuanchao and others in the wasteland Xiaotun "Xiangyangtun". From the bitter beginning of digging through frozen soil and sleeping on a kang, to life choices in the tide of returning to the city, to the ups and downs of the market wave, the fate of this group of people has been intertwined in the rapids of the times for forty years. Friendship has experienced betrayal and forgiveness, love spans urban and rural areas and class, and family ties are pulled between blood and upbringing. The black earth witnessed their hottest youth and most difficult survival, and also buried secrets that changed everyone's life. When the bell of the new century rings, some people stay forever among the white mountains and black waters, and some return to the edge of the city with scars, and their children are taking the stories of two generations into a new era where there is no longer talk of "going to the countryside" and "returning to the city." This is an epic about ideals, survival, redemption and memory. It tells how a generation lived and became history itself in a land that does not belong to them.