num_pages: 221
description: A series of short stories features such offbeat characters as a doctor-detective-warrior who sleeps like a hippo in a cistern and a homicidal maniac housewife whose husband ends up in the hospital with a stomach full of needles.
language: English
title: The Embroidered Shoes: Stories
titlecomplete: The Embroidered Shoes: Stories
genres: China, Short Stories, Asia, Literature, Chinese Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 68
publisher: Henry Holt & Co