| | The Past and the Punishments(96th Edition) Eight Stories (Fiction from Modern China) by Yu Hua, Andrew F. Jones, Howard Goldblatt, Hua Yü Paperback, 292 Pages, Published 1996 by Ateneo De Manila Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-1817-3, ISBN: 0-8248-1817-2
"To travel through these stories is to cross a landscape of stunning beauty and terrific cruelty, where expectations are subverted, where moral certainties are shattered, where gorgeously wrought surfaces beguile at the same time that acts of incredible brutality horrify. It is no wonder that Yu Hua's stories caused a sensation when they first appeared in the 1980s. His work represents a sophisticated and often disturbing revolutio ..."
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