In the winter of 2025, the Songhua River was frozen ahead of schedule.
99-Year-old Granny Jiang sat on an abandoned wooden raft and refused to go ashore. The pipe in her arms can produce Morse code - three long and two short, which means "I'm back". She has been knocking for seventy years, waiting for someone who will never come back.
Under the ice, the river is still flowing. On the ice, she saw the undead from a hundred years ago lining up: the glance when her father looked back before being captured by the Japanese, the dead wood in the arms of the water rat when he drowned to save his child, the body of Jin Sheng, the anti-Japanese liaison officer, entangled in water plants... An illiterate woman used three thousand pieces of birch bark to write a forgotten chronicle of the Songhua River.
After sealing the river for seven days, she used her last time to complete her water burial.
This is not the story of one person, but the memory of a river. The river remembers everyone, and the memory of the river is longer than the stone.
Reader comments
The overall pace of this book is relaxed and moderate, the characters are three-dimensional and vivid, and the plot is foreshadowed layer by layer. It was only after reading the second half that I suddenly understood the hidden details in the previous text. The narrative is smooth and not procrastinating, and there is no unnecessary water content. The author's writing style is delicate and contagious, and his emotional portrayal is very good. He can easily embody the joys and sorrows of the characters. The core idea is profound. It not only tells a story, but also contains thoughts worthy of careful consideration. Occasionally, the progress of some branch plots is a little slow, but it does not affect the overall look and feel. After reading it, you will have a long aftertaste and it is worth reading calmly and repeatedly. Readers who like this kind of subject matter should not miss it.
A very nice book, a bit like One Hundred Years of Solitude!
The overall pace of this book is relaxed and moderate, the characters are three-dimensional and vivid, and the plot is foreshadowed layer by layer. It was only after reading the second half that I suddenly understood the hidden details in the previous text. The narrative is smooth and not procrastinating, and there is no unnecessary water content. The author's writing style is delicate and contagious, and his emotional portrayal is very good. He can easily embody the joys and sorrows of the characters. The core idea is profound. It not only tells a story, but also contains thoughts worthy of careful consideration. Occasionally, the progress of some branch plots is a little slow, but it does not affect the overall look and feel. After reading it, you will have a long aftertaste and it is worth reading calmly and repeatedly. Readers who like this kind of subject matter should not miss it.
A very nice book, a bit like One Hundred Years of Solitude!