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: Soft Burial's force arises from its insistently interconnected threads. Lives that form a unity never fully glimpse the ways they have been knotted together... The subject is the individual self molded, remolded, surviving, or being consumed by cataclysmic change.-- "New York Review of Books"