Days, Months, Years

This book, by one of today’s best Chinese writers (Independent), includes two of his most famous novellas.

“Days, Months, Years” (2002) is a deeply moving parable about an elderly man and a blind dog left in a mountain village after all the residents abandoned it because of a brutal drought.

“The Ballad of Mount Balu” (2001) is a piercing story about a widow raising four mentally and physically disabled children and learning that there is a way to cure them. A mother will stop at nothing to ensure her children a normal life.