A Flock in the Wilderness

In this collection are six stories by the well-known woman writer Chi Zijian from China's Northeast. Set against a unique background of the Heilongjiang River valley, the stories describe the people, customs and atmosphere in the Northeast, her deep impression of her childhood spent with her grandmother and her keen sense and observation of the life there. Her descriptions are worked in a style that is at once simple and straightforward, vigorous and intelligent, vivid and lifelike.


Genre: Literary Fiction