Hometown That I Can't Go Back To

"Hometown I Can't Return to" is based on personal life history, interweaving the changes in the countryside and the fate of small people under the torrent of the times. The writing is not only full of nostalgia for the hometown, but also calmly examines the disappearance of the spiritual hometown in the process of modernization. The work has been evaluated by readers as "the migration epic of a generation and an affectionate inquiry about identity." The author grew up in a northern mountain village in the 1980s and 1990s and witnessed the changes in rural society with his own eyes. He wrote based on his personal memories, recording the scenery of the four seasons in the mountain village, farmhouse fireworks, old local delicacies and rural people, with a simple and profound writing style. The wandering described by the author is not about having no fixed place, but the common destiny of millions of wanderers: the body settles in the city, and the soul is attached to the homeland. A generation of people left the mountain village to make a living and settle down, but their hometown kept changing. The author preserved the home in his memory in words and it will never fade away. The work has no fancy words and only uses plain words to express nostalgia, touching countless wandering strangers and preserving a spiritual hometown for the disappearing hometown.