From Shanghai before and during the Second World War to U.S. occupied Tokyo, and, finally, to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Ian Buruma's masterful novel a

In five richly imaginative novellas and a short story, Zhu Wen depicts the violence, chaos, and dark comedy of China in the post-Mao era. A frank reflection of

Novel retelling the dramatic experiences of the author's adolescence - as previously described in the 1984 Prix Goncourt winning T̀he Lover'.

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