The American writer Howard Fast was one of the most influential writers in China in the fifties of the last century, and his "Immigration" trilogy was like a textbook, and the Chinese literary circles gave this book great praise at that time, not because he had a high level of literary attainment, but because he was a member of the Communist Party of the United States at that time, with a consistent political tendency and a common belief, when his works were basically translated into Chinese and published in large quantities, until he quit the Communist Party of the United States in 1957, and then his reputation plummeted. No one in The country studied and translated his works. It was not until the end of the Cultural Revolution that howard Fast was revived, but time has passed, the domestic literary world has blossomed, a large number of excellent foreign works have been translated and published, his names and works have been submerged in celebrity masterpieces, and to this day, probably only the elderly in their old age still vaguely remember the works of Howard Fast.
"The Second Generation" is the second part of the "Immigrant" trilogy, but its structure is complete, the context is clear, and it can be written independently. Set in San Francisco and Los Angeles, the book describes the painful lives and encounters of a group of foreign immigrants led by Daniel Lavert and their second generation.
Daniel made his fortune in World War II, but at the same time the war took away his beloved wife. His daughter Barbara, as the second generation of immigrants, inherited the integrity, kindness, brave and enterprising character of the older generation, not only participated in the strike struggle in the United States, but also traveled as a journalist to the battlefield to conduct interviews, report the news in a timely manner, footprints throughout Paris, Berlin, Calcutta, Saudi Arabia and other places, through the test of war and the twists and turns of love, Barbara grew from a warm and romantic pure girl into an outstanding female journalist and female writer.
