Shen Fuyu was born in Jiangsu, China in 1970. At the age of 18, he left home and drifted around the country, taking up a variety of jobs--porter, clerk, and schoolteacher--and began his writing career. He graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Nanjing University in 1996, and has been working as a journalist for 20 years. Having published more than a dozen books, Shen is a full-time writer now and lives in Paris.
"[Shen Fuyu's] prose is steeped in contagious nostalgia, and he
employs the universal language of emigration and exile, writing, 'I
am now an orphan, lost in the big city.'"
—Farah Abdessamad, The Atlantic
"Beautifully written, with an almost mythic tone, each of these
vignettes captures a piece of village life and custom during a
tumultuous century in Chinese history."
—Booklist
"A Marcel Pagnol of provincial China in a beautifully accessible
translation."
—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
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