Потерянные в Великом походе

1934 god. Sever Kitai͡a okkupirovan i͡apont͡sami, a na i͡uge kommunisty Mao T͡Szėduna otbivai͡utsi͡a ot chasteĭ Gominʹdana. No zhiznʹ prodolzhaetsi͡a - molchalivyĭ oruzheĭnik Pin i marksistka-snaĭper I͡Un sredi boev i pokhodov sozdai͡ut semʹi͡u. I͡Un zhdet rebenka, tolʹko ego pridetsi͡a ostavitʹ tam, gde on poi͡avitsi͡a na svet, vedʹ Krasnai͡a armii͡a ne mozhet probiratʹsi͡a na sever strany pod ognem protivnika pod plach mladent͡sa. Syna Pina i I͡Un vospitaet krestʹi͡anka iz gornoĭ mestnosti, kotorai͡a dazhe ne znaet ikh narechii͡a.1978 god. Uzhe nemolodye Pin i I͡Un, chinovniki vysokogo ranga kommunisticheskogo Kitai͡a, na proti͡azhenii mnogikh let tshchetno pytavshiesi͡a otyskatʹ syna v tekh mestakh, gde ego ostavili, odnazhdy vstrechai͡ut na stolichnom rynke odnorukogo brodi͡agu…Ėpicheskiĭ i gluboko nat͡sionalʹnyĭ roman, deĭstvie kotorogo nachinaetsi͡a na fone godichnogo otstuplenii͡a Krasnoĭ armii Kitai͡a, nazvannogo pozzhe Velikim pokhodom, povestvuet o polnoĭ prevratnosteĭ zhizni soldat Velikogo Predsedateli͡a Mao. Chitatʹ dalʹshe…

The year is 1934. The north of China is occupied by the Japanese, and in the south, Mao Zedong's communists are fighting off parts of the Kuomintang. But life goes on — Ping, a silent gunsmith, and Yun, a Marxist sniper, create a family among battles and campaigns. Yun is expecting a baby, but he will have to be left where he will be born, because the Red Army cannot make its way to the north of the country under enemy fire while a baby is crying. Ping and Yun's son will be raised by a peasant woman from a mountainous area who does not even know their dialect.The year is 1978. Already middle-aged Ping and Yun, high-ranking officials of communist China, who for many years have tried in vain to find their son in the places where he was left, one day they meet a one-armed tramp in the capital's market…The epic and deeply national novel, which begins against the backdrop of the one-year retreat of the Chinese Red Army, later called the Great Campaign, tells the story of the vicissitudes of the life of the soldiers of the Great Chairman Mao. Read more…