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To Live, by Yu Hua

>>18637994
If you're looking for a good novel I recommend "To Live"by Hua Yu.

>>18050553
To Live by Ching Chang Chong

This novel is about a guy who almost lost everything in Communist China. He had wealthy waste as a drunk gambler and abuser prior to the revolution. He was lucky to have gambled his family's wealth away when the aristocrats were assassinated. Everyone dies but they face their wasted years with humble learned strength. His papery skin under silk robes becomes hardened laborer hands.

It's clear that every important person around fugui dies, especially because he is alone with his ox when it switches to the present. Some of the deaths are really hard hitting like his son. But I like the overall message of it a lot.