Amazing Books from Around the World
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Boy in the Twilight: Stories of the Hidden China
By Yu Hua
208 pages;
Pantheon
A Chinese writer noted for his "popular realism" sketches a portrait of his country through fictional vignettes of everyday life.
— Abbe Wright
Published 12/19/2013