Village of Stone
"A refreshing departure from much of the recent Chinese fiction to reach these shores. The language has the pared-down simplicity of a fable; the effect is a bit like that of a Haruki Murakami novel" Times Literary Supplement "Open this book and you will see a Chinese girl stepping towards you out of China's past and into its present, with all her dreams and striving" -- Xinran "Exquisitely written and intricately contructed" Independent "Reading it is rather like finding yourself in a dream: "once upon a time..." People are going to like this book very much... What could have been a misery of a story has the mysterious charm of a fairy tale or a legend" -- Doris Lessing--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.