The Topmost is a novel relating how some modern educated youths, headed by Xiao Dunhe, An Qun, Ding Shoudu, Ogawa, Xiao Wuzhou and An Na, struggle to overcome their hard life, using all their willpower to reach the pinnacle in various fields. This is typically shown in their bid to climb Kawagarbo, the extremely difficult main peak of Meri Snow Mountain on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, as well as Mont Blanc in the European Alps. Through this, we see confusion, anxiety, cowardice and courage, and the hard pursuit of dreams, intertwined with life and death, and love and hate…
hang Haidi says, “Although disability limits my freedom to walk, literary imagination gives me infinite space, linking my life with a distant, mysterious snow-capped mountain, whose beauty and holy silhouette combine to highlight ideals and losses, bright aspects and dismay that are part of life. Today, when there seems to be an absence of heroism, I try to reveal the dauntless spirit of those who climb toward the mountain summit in an attempt to find traces of the idealism I cherish. Here lies my attitude toward life - the climb will not end as long as life continues.” Readers will be moved by the heroes and heroines of The Topmost, as they surely also admire idealism and heroism in their pursuit of a beautiful tomorrow.