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Inmost release date1/10/2023 ![]() ![]() It's an OK novel, but neither good nor great. Her husband becomes a worker in the collective farm also raising two piglets (for the collective, as a way to earm work points, not for the meat for the family) and three chicken at home. She is a modern university graduate and a professional woman with a sizable work experience in sales and office management, now is a barely literate housewife with three kids who spends seven years preparing (self-studying) for the first university admissions exam in China in 1977, while raising the OG's three sons aged 1, 3, and 5, and making money by re-selling meat in the black market and later becoming a teacher in their village school. Her main goal seems to be to prevent her three step-kids from becoming villains and dying young and her husband's ill health and his early death 20 years later, in 1980s.Ī month or two later her wounded 27 years old husband retires from the army and comes back home to their village on one snowy night bringing in an equivalent of ten years worth of his substantial salary, they celebrate New Year (1970) together with his side of the family and the events unfold from that point on. She transmigrates into a novel so she knows both the set of characters and events that will unfold, all its players, including the villainous OG and her nasty parental family, and she is from the future, well educated and skilled, so she knows what will happen in history and is not naïve. She becomes a 24 years old unemployed married woman, a step-mother to three dirty and emaciated kids living in a village separate from her in-laws. The FL, a sales department manager in our times, transmigrates into autumn of 1969, the third year of Cultural Revolution. She could do the same in 1959 or in 1979 rural China and you won't be able to tell the difference. more> The FL adamantly refuses any farm work and she literally spends only a couple of months in the very end of 1969! And nothing impacts her at that time, she stays at home, bathes her kids, and cooks and sews and knits clothes. It does not even justify its title, because it takes place in the seventies and beyond, not in the 1960s. Meanwhile, I read several other novels about the same period and now I see that this one is actually at the bottom in every sense. ![]() I felt it was interesting and waited for it to be completely translated to read it. Back then its translation had just begun. This novel was the first C-novel that I read about transmigration into the recent past.
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