The new bookshelf | "Blood Brothers": youth and growth in the flames of war

Cover news reporter Wang Hui

A pair of brothers, separated by war. The brothers searched for each other in the vast sea of people and the flames of war, but they passed each other several times. In this process, they had different encounters, and they mistakenly joined the different camps of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, thus having their own different personal trajectories...

Recently, Xinjiang writer Kong Liwen's latest masterpiece ,"Blood Brothers", was published and distributed by the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Publishing House.

The novel takes the suffering and struggle of these brothers as the main line, depicts the cruelty of war and the human nature of human nature, as well as the harm of life and the profound hardness of fate, revealing the truth and glow of human nature in war and turbulent society.

In the novel, these two compatriots and brothers who were separated by the war went to the country in the torrent of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and then they fought for life and death during the War of Liberation, and later, one went to Xinjiang to suppress bandits, and the other retreated to Taiwan.

Meng Zhaozhong, who joined the Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Force led by the Communist Party, followed the troops all the way west, gradually growing from an ordinary peasant to an excellent company commander of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. In his long life, he always adhered to the duty of a Communist Party member, never forgot his original intention, and was loyal to the party.

What the novel shows is not only the iron-boned male bloodiness, but also the fiery enthusiasm for the home country. It is this strong emotion that supports the tenacious and indomitable resistance to fate.

The youth and growth in the stormy weather, the pain and struggle of sorrow and joy in the chaotic world. Through war, parting, nostalgia and homecoming, the author reveals the sorrow and suffering brought by the war to the Chinese nation, and expresses the people's yearning for peace and the expectation of national unity and reunification. The two sides of the Taiwan Strait share the same origin, the same language and the same species, and were originally a family that was close to each other and connected by blood. This natural sentiment and national identity of blood thicker than water and watching out for each other cannot be changed by anyone or any force.

The plot of the novel is delicate and touching, and the characters are real and vivid. The setting of the two protagonists is very clever, they are brothers in the flesh and blood, but they are in different camps, family affection and faith collide with each other, contradictions and conflicts rise and fall, and suspense overlaps. While portraying the war youth and different kinds of love of a pair of brothers, the author expresses the deep feelings of a family connected by blood on both sides of the strait through the story of Taiwan veterans who are homesick and eager to return to their ancestors.

Kong Liwen, the author of the book, said that telling the war is not to incite hatred, but to remember history, think about the future, Chinese has always longed for the world's peace, because historical China has experienced too much suffering and turmoil, in the process of writing, there is a deeper understanding and understanding of the connotation of war and human nature, as well as the relationship between individuals, society, countries and nations.

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