Contents Briefing
Ordinary World is a realistic novel and a novelized family history. The writer highly concentrates historical evolution in rural areas of Northwest China. The work has reached a high ideological and artistic unity. Especially the main character's spirits of arduous struggle and painstaking efforts in face of the adversity still inspire today's readers.
This novel is a panoramic view to China's contemporary urban and rural social life. The book falls into three parts. The Author, setting foot on the broader context of the last decade, through the complex conflicts and disputes, characterizes many ordinary people from all walks of life. Labor and love, frustration and pursuit, pain and happiness, daily life and great social conflict are all complicated and intertwined to profoundly demonstrate ordinary people's hard and tortuous path in the historical progress of the great era.
Publisher Profile
The people's Literature Publishing House, founded in March 1951, is a national publishing institution whose subsidiary is the Foreign Literature Publishing House. It has published a considerable amount of classic Chinese literary works, representative works of modern and contemporary literature and Chinese versions of outstanding overseas literary works, as well as works on literary theories and children's books etc. Books published over the years have formed an excellent series of public... more about
Author Profile
Lu Yao (1949-1992) is a native of Qingjian (Shaanxi). In 1973, he studied in Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Yan'an University. After graduating from the university in 1976, he successively did editorial work in Literature and Art in Shaanxi Province and Yanhe Magazine. He ever took the post of Vice Chairman of Shaanxi Provincial Writers Association. He has started to publish works since 1978. His works include saga novel Ordinary World, novellas Soul-stirring ScenE, Life and so on.
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