Lost in the Great March

1934 year. Northern China is occupied by the Japanese, while in the south, Mao Zedong's communists are fighting off the forces of the Kuomintang. But life goes on — the silent gunsmith Ping and the Marxist sniper Yun build a family amidst battles and marches. Yun is expecting a child, but they will have to leave him where he is born, as the Red Army cannot move north under enemy fire with the cries of a baby. The son of Ping and Yun will be raised by a peasant woman from the mountains, who does not even know their dialect. 1978 year. Now not young, Ping and Yun, high-ranking officials of communist China, who have been trying in vain for many years to find their son in the places where he was left, one day encounter a one-armed wanderer in the capital’s market… An epic and deeply national novel, set against the backdrop of the year-long retreat of the Chinese Red Army, later called the Great March, tells the story of the many twists and turns in the lives of the soldiers of Great Chairman Mao.