Thirty-three years, three generations, one elementary school in a remote mountain valley.
From the snowy night the Soviet Union collapsed, to a man using the 36,000 yuan his father left him to start a school; from a border-trade merchant left in despair after being swindled out of 500,000 yuan, to an elderly vegetable farmer who spends thirteen years paying off his debts; from a middle-aged man who spent years scraping by in Beijing without getting anywhere, to a market vendor who finds his own path; from a seven-year-old girl too afraid to enter school, to the teacher who takes up the baton...
This is the story of a group of people, and of a road.
"See a road, don't take it" does not mean avoiding the road. It means not taking the road others have taken.
"No road left to take" does not mean a dead end. It means a beginning.
No Road Left to Take is a novel about finding a path and passing it on, dedicated to everyone still searching for their way.
