Book Introduction
The book describes the rise and fall of a Muslim family during sixty years and the ups and downs of its three generations, which experienced two love tragedies in different times. The tragedies, though in different forms, twisted together. With a unique angle of view, sincere feelings, rich contents, profound connotations and grave and stern style of writing, this over-500,000-character full-length novel affectionately reviews the hard lives of the Chinese Muslims. It reveals their thoughts and feelings in the clash and fusion of the Han culture and the Islamic culture as well as their confusion in pursuing the truth essence of life in the specific period. The book vividly portrays the images of figures unseen in a series of literary galleries before, including Liang Yiqing, Han Ziqi, Liang Junbi, Liang Bingyu, Han Xinyue and Chu Yanchao. Featuring implicit depiction, pathetic and touching narration, fine and smooth style of writing, it touches the heart cords of the readers, who may sigh with emotion at the end of the novel.