Mar 31, 2009 | 544 Pages
May 15, 2008 | 1350 Minutes
“An intellectual adventure story. . . . Five hundred bloody and instructive pages later, you just want to stand up and howl.”
-Alan Cheuse, San Francisco Chronicle
“[Jiang Rong] is on the way to becoming one of the most celebrated and controversial Chinese novelists in the world.”
–The Guardian (London)
“Electrifying. . . . The power of Jiang’s prose (and of Howard Goldblatt’s excellent translation) is evident. . . . This semi-autographical novel is a literary triumph.”
–National Geographic Traveler (Book of the Month)
