ARGONAUT BOOKS

A thrilling journey through China's dark criminal underworld, from a celebrated voice in Chinese literature Reviews 'A Yi describes [power] in prose that flies at the reader like sparks from a knife being sharpened. But there's also exquisite precision… Nicky Harman's translation is superb, not a sentence out of place… It's tempting to view the book as A Yi's unflinching take on a moral vacuum at the heart of contemporary China, but he is also lowering his bucket into a much deeper well of delicious literary misanthropy.' New Interna...Read More