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Spanning Three Generations, This Novel Of Family And Myth Is Told Through A Series Of Flashbacks That Depict Events Of Staggering Horror Set Against A Landscape Of Gemlike Beauty As The Chinese Battle Both The Japanese Invaders And Each Other In The Turbulent 1930s. As The Novel Opens, A Group Of Villagers, Led By Commander Yu, The Narrator's Grandfather, Prepare To Attack The Advancing Japanese. Yu Sends His 14-year-old Son Back Home To Get Food For His Men; But As Yu's Wife Returns Through The Sorghum Fields With The Food, The Japanese Start Firing And She Is Killed. Her Death Becomes The Thread That Links The Past To The Present And The Narrator Moves Back And Forth Recording The War's Progress, The Fighting Between The Chinese Warlords And His Family's History. This file is missing one or two pages near the end of the book--the second- and maybe third-to-last page. Couldn't find anywhere else to make this note. A novel of family, myth, and memory set during the fratricidal barbarity of 1930s China follows the Chinese as they battle the Japanese and each other. Political saga set in China's Shandong province. It spans half a century and involves three generations of one family