The seventh day
By: Yu Hua ; translated from the Chinese by Allan H.  Barr
Contributors: Barr, Allan Hepburn
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780804197861
Subjects: Social life and customs; Fiction
Other titles: 7th day
Work titles: Di qi tian
Description: Yang Fei was born on a moving train. Lost by his mother, adopted by a young switchman, raised with simplicity and love, he is utterly unprepared for the tempestuous changes that await him and his country. As a young man, he searches for a place to belong in a nation that is ceaselessly reinventing itself, but he remains on the edges of society. At age forty-one, he meets an accidental and unceremonious death. Lacking the money for a burial plot, he must roam the afterworld aimlessly, without rest. Over the course of seven days, he encounters the souls of the people he's lost.
Notes: "A novel"--Jacket.

"Originally published in China as Diqi tian by New Star Press, Beijing, in 2013"--Title page verso.