An Anchor in the Dust

The story of Yao Hua begins in a drafty dormitory at Yunqing No. 2 High School. When he graduates, he receives a letter containing just ten words. Thirty years pass in a flash, and on the day he returns to his alma mater... High school was grueling back then, getting into college was hard, and state-owned enterprises were laying people off... That was more or less how things were in those days. A slow-paced work of realistic fiction set in a bygone era. It follows those born in the 1970s and 1980s who left the countryside, and explores their obsessions, struggles, and losses...