Critical Praise

“[Jiang Rong] is on the way to becoming one of the most celebrated and controversial Chinese novelists in the world.”

—The Guardian (London)

“Electrifying. . . . The power of Jiang’s prose (and of Howard Goldblatt’s excellent translation) is evident. . . . This semi-autographical novel is a literary triumph.”

—National Geographic Traveler (Book of the Month)

“An intellectual adventure story. . . . Five hundred bloody and instructive pages later, you just want to stand up and howl.”

—Alan Cheuse, San Francisco Chronicle