(Paperback)

From the Granta Magazine Editions series: these gritty, surreal stories by one of the most highly-celebrated young Chinese writers reveal new and striking visions of life in China today.

(Paperback)

From one of the most highly celebrated young Chinese writers, three dazzling novellas of Northeast China, mixing realism, mysticism, and noir. An inventor dreams of escaping his drab surroundings in a flying machine. A criminal, trapped beneath a frozen lake, fights a giant fish. A strange girl pledges to ignite a field of sorghum stalks.