Earthworker

This is a novel that panoramically expresses the life in remote rural areas of Longdong Loess Plateau. The whole book is divided into two parts. This book is based on the social history of China from the mid-1960s to the period after the reform and opening up. It focuses on shaping the image of the lower-class workers represented by Gou Wa who endure humiliation and strive to change their lives and destiny and strive for self-improvement. Through complex conflicts and entanglements, it depicts the complex ideologies and worldly feelings of all kinds of people living at the bottom of society. It eulogizes the spirit of unremitting struggle of the majority of rural workers in the pursuit of a happy and beautiful life, and reveals the true meaning that the fate of ordinary working people is connected with the fate of the country and the nation.