Whispers from Cangshan

This is a realistic novel about the sweeping changes in rural mountain communities in a new era. The author traveled to more than 40 villages and interviewed over 200 farmers, spending ten years developing and refining the story.

Deep in the Laoye Ridge of Northeast China, at the foot of Guanyin Mountain, lies a small village called Zhashugou. Cut off from the outside world, its people are simple and fierce, and life is desperately hard.

Qiao Fulin is a bank security chief, and his wife works at the bank. He quits his job and returns to his hometown to grow black fungus, hoping to help the villagers prosper and escape poverty and ignorance. But his wife cannot understand him, and his son might as well be a stranger. His mother, who lost her husband because of black fungus; his eldest brother, left disabled after being mauled by a black bear while gathering wild fungus; and Liandie, his childhood sweetheart who later became a widow, all oppose him! He becomes a