Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang
In this spellbinding book by Hugo Award-winning author Hao Jingfang, a group of children are sent to Earth as delegates from Mars a century after the Martian war of independence. However, when they get home, they find themselves torn between the beauty and cultures of the two worlds and unable to reconcile them.
This genre-defying book takes place on Earth after a second civil war, but this time, the rival groups are from Mars and Earth, two planets in the same solar system. The Mars colonies send a group of young people to live on Earth in an effort to help bring humanity together in order to ease growing tensions.
However, the group, which is caught between two realities, discovers itself without a true home, friends, and shattered allegiances. This novel is a profoundly philosophical reflection on what makes human societies tick. The weight of history and philosophy gives depth to what initially appears to be a tale of adolescent anguish. This book has the appearance of travelling slowly even while it traverses a substantial portion of the human heart, similar to a spaceship traversing the galaxy.
Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang
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After arriving on Earth, a girl talks about attending parties. People from Earth visited Mars, and there was off-stage talk of war, but nothing actually transpired. While they were conversing, some Earth guy secretly recorded her, and after he left, he gave her the recording. We only hear hints about what might have happened, despite the fact that the girl’s parents are dead. And the word “dictator” has become a bizarre fixation. A lot of the content in this book has the potential to be interesting, including the competing political and economic systems, the issues of freedom from want against other freedoms, the contribution of individual lives to the whole, and more.
This is the tale of the fifty-member Mars delegation’s five-year journey back to its original planet. especially the tale of Luoying, a teenager who finds it difficult to adjust to Mars politics after experiencing the vastly different politics of Earth. Eko Lu, a documentarian on the fifty-person delegation from Earth to Mars, is also included in the story. The only grandchild of the dictator of Mars, Luoying, is the subject of his documentation.
