小说以“那年打仗”的历史心绪为主线,描写陈春生、黄虎臣等几位“越战”老兵的人生经历与命运浮沉,以战争与和平年代的巨大反差揭示不同时期的人生况味,读来五味杂陈、令人感慨。一陈春生是个城里人,但他身上总是散发着一种干草和牛粪的混合气味,这种气味似乎被揉进了他的皮肤,老远见到他,我眼前就会出现插队时经常打扫的牛棚。我猜想,八岁那年他被挂红袖套的人带走,或许在某个养过牛的黑屋子里被关过较长时间。但我始终没敢问他,害怕触动他不堪回首的童年记忆。记得当年,我赶到长江 The novel, based on the historical mood of “war that year”, describes the life experience and fate of several “Vietnam War” veterans such as Chen Chunsheng and Huang Hu-chen, revealing the different tastes of life in different periods with the great contrast between war and peace. Read mixed feelings, it is feeling. Chen Chunsheng is a city man, but he always exudes a mixed smell of hay and cow dung. This smell seems to be rubbed into his skin. When he sees him in the distance, there will be a series Cow shed. I suspect he was taken away by a red-sleeved cuff at the age of eight and might have been held for a long time in a dark room where cattle were raised. But I always dared not ask him, afraid to touch his painful childhood memories. I remember that year, I rushed to the Yangtze River