Introduction to the original novel Bai Qing Brothers
The original novel "Bai Qing Ge" was not only shortlisted for the National Book Award in the United States, but also won many novel awards, and was ranked in the best seller list in The New York Times and one of the top ten best books in The New York Times. After the novel was published, it occupied the charts. Because of its success, it gained a lot of attention after the news that it was about to be remake into an album came out.
19 10 year, Japan annexed Korea. That year, a North Korean, together with his parents, ran a small hotel in the countryside of his hometown Shadow Island. According to common sense, many people may regard this person as the hero, or even mistakenly think that he is Bai Qingge. In fact, Bai Qingge is not alone-it refers to a game machine in Japan, similar to a slot machine. "Bai Qingge" is listed as a custom industry in Japan, and it is also the only permitted non-kung pao gambling. The story of Bai Qingge, the original novel, tells the story of a family with four generations living under one roof, who immigrated to Japan from this Korean man and finally gained a firm foothold in Japan by relying on Bai Qingge's career, which was unable to enter the stage.
The heroine Shanci in the novel, like other women from the bottom, has never read a book and can't read. Since he was sensible, Junko has been helping the family to take care of the small house. But this simple country girl hid a secret: she was pregnant before she got married. The father of the child is Korean-Japanese. He has a family, and his in-laws are prominent gangsters in the Kanto area. For his future, he can't marry a woman. The question was thrown at the woman. The belly is getting bigger and bigger. How should Shanci and her family face the future life of that era?
At this time, a North Korean priest came to the homestay run by Junko's family. The priest's eldest brother died in the Korean independence movement on March 1. Moreover, many of North Korea's founding generals are also believers in the church. There is no doubt that the priest also has a heart to serve the country. However, it is a miracle that he can live to adulthood, because he was weak and sick since childhood. I went to Shanci's house this time, not because he wanted to disturb his fragile body, but because he wanted to work in a Japanese factory in Japan and find him a job in a church.
At that time, the scale of Japanese military operations in China was growing. In order to support military spending, Japan began to impose heavy taxes on colonial Korea. Pastor comes from a landlord family. In order to pay higher and higher land tax, the family began to sell land continuously. All knowledgeable North Koreans know that North Korea can't stay any longer, and neither can China, the former sovereign state. The only place to go is Japan.
Due to his infirmity, the priest accidentally fell on the shabby bed of the hotel. Under the care of Junko, the priest's body gradually recovered. In order to repay the kindness, the priest who discovered the secret of the hostess decided to marry Shunza to solve the urgent need. After eating the first bowl of udon noodles with the priest, Junko married the priest and went to Osaka, Japan with him. After arriving in Japan, the Shanci family lived with the pastor's second brother and sister-in-law.
Korean immigrants are at the bottom of Japanese society, and their status is even lower than that of Japanese untouchables. In order to subsidize the family, Junko began to sell kimchi in the street. After that, she was attracted by a restaurant and was recruited to make kimchi at a high price. This greatly eased the family's predicament. 1944 65438+In February, a man who was pregnant before marriage found a straight man. It turns out that the owner of that restaurant is a Korean in Japan. He is a rogue. He knew that Junko had given birth to his child and secretly took care of Junko's family for more than ten years. His sudden appearance this time is to convey an important message: "If the Americans want to bomb Osaka, Japan will definitely lose the war, but the Japanese government will not admit that they will let all Japanese boys die." At this time, with the help of the first love of the underworld, the woman went to other cities to find a job, and the family was sent to the countryside to escape the war.
But can the descendants of the hostess really rise against the trend in Japan, which has always been discriminated against? During the bubble economy, people waved Japanese banknotes on the streets of Japan, making it difficult to get a taxi. The investment banking career of Solo, the grandson of the woman, was highly respected at that time. However, his first transaction acted as a scapegoat and completely ruined his investment banking career. There is no other reason: because he is Korean and this is Japan.
Bai Qing Ge has spread the historical picture of the East Asian cultural circle for nearly a hundred years, but its brushwork is aimed at the fate turntable of the little people in the big era: from North Korea to Japan, how the four generations of immigrants struggled in the historical torrent.
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