A novel set against the 1938 Yellow River flood, following rural families through disaster and survival.

The flood alters village life and remakes the fate of its people.

Zhang Jie’s novel is set in the early reform era and explores the friction between bureaucracy and modernization inside China’s industrial sector.

It portrays early reform-era industry through both institutions and human relationships.

Liu Xinwu’s novel follows the ordinary lives gathered around a wedding day near Beijing’s Bell and Drum Towers.

It captures a single Beijing day and gives three-dimensional shape to courtyard life.