Qing tunes

The novel of one of the most famous modern Chinese writers - Jia Pinva, whose work is attributed to the literary course of the "search for the roots", tells about the life of peasants in the mountainous area of ​​Sheny"s province in recent decades of the twentieth century. The book tells about the influence that the inhabitants of the modern village of the traditions of the Shencian (Qing) opera - musical drama, originated in the era of mines on the border of the current provinces of Shanxi, Shanxi and Gans, where in ancient times was the kingdom of Qin.
For the novel "Qing Tunes", its author in 2005 was awarded the prestigious literary prize named after Mao Dunya. In Russian, the novel is published for the first time