Jiangyuan Town Chronicles

"Hometown is the book that no one can finish in his lifetime." This book explores the eternal propositions of the Chinese people through the last half year before a thousand-year-old town was submerged by a reservoir: roots and migration, memory and forgetting, farewell and inheritance. Shen Huaiyuan continued writing his father's unfinished "Jiangyuan Town Chronicles", which is not only a record of his physical hometown, but also a search for his spiritual home. In the countdown to "everything will disappear", the book asks an ultimate question: When our homeland sinks to the bottom of the water, how can we put our homesickness to rest?