Description: Soft Burial is one of the most remarkable--and most controversial--recent works of Chinese literature. Part mystery, part historical fiction, and part social exposé, the novel intercuts different generations, regions, and time periods.
Review Quotes: The Chinese authorities feared Fang Fang's book because it revealed the horror of a time that remains unspoken, and because it encouraged that mistrust to fall on the government, rather than one's fellow citizens.-- "The New Statesman"