Hunger and loneliness : my muses -- Shifu, you'll do anything for a laugh -- Man and beast -- Soaring -- Iron child -- The cure -- Love story -- Shen garden -- Abandoned child.
Summary
The author of The Republic of Wine presents a new collection of innovative short stories, which range from the tragic to the comic and reflect the author's own disdain for bureaucracy and repression, that includes the title story, which is being made into a major film by acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou.
