Publisher's Synopsis
This book consists of eight novellas and short stories. Water and fire, softness and sharpness, spring and winter, plants and iron. In these conflicts, Han Jiang has insight into the momentary feelings and impressions, and uses beautiful and vivid language to describe the expression of fate. When he probes the dark side of the relationship between people, he shines with dazzling light. The collection of short stories focuses on the "underclass" people, and each protagonist wanders "like an orphan in a hopeless world". They come out of hotel rooms in backwoods towns, rooms at the end of corridors in exam halls, dark basements or corridors of multi-family houses and high-rise apartments, past dark staircases and unlit alleys, into the weary clutter of Among the city streets.
