Clouds Rush and Tide Surges

This novel, based on the perspective of three different characters, the second son, mother, and father of a land-lost peasant family, takes "searching" as the theme - looking for happiness, finding family ties, looking for home, and looking for a sense of belonging and security. It shows the life changes of a land-lost peasant family in the process of urbanization in the past 10 years, and reveals the common and complex impacts and changes that urbanization has brought to the lives of ordinary Chinese people and this great era. This novel is divided into three parts. "The First What Happiness Looks Like" takes the perspective of Zhang Mu, the second son of this family, and uses Zhang Mu's experience and thoughts in the winter of 1999 as clues to show the living embarrassment of landless peasant families in the early stages of urbanization and the endless confusion in the face of urbanization. "Part 2 Where to Go", from the perspective of the mother of this family, uses the mother's experience and thoughts during the village demolition in the summer of 2003 as clues to show the various changes that have occurred in the village collective of landless farmers, as well as the lives, confusion and deep emotions of landless farmers after the accelerated urbanization process, as well as their deep feelings for land and houses. "The Third Hometown Is a Foreign Land" takes the perspective of the father of this family and uses the father's life experience and thoughts from 2004 to 2006 as clues to show the complex living conditions of landless farmers when the urbanization of this village is about to be completed. It also shows the father's sad journey of searching for his hometown, past events and emotions during the urbanization process. The novel introduces many paradoxical and complex phenomena into thinking, which increases the thickness of the novel, improves the quality and profoundness of the novel, and makes the novel's social significance broader.