The Seventh Day by Yu Hua, translated by Allan H. Barr [in Library Journal]
15 Oct, by in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Repost, Translation
*STARRED REVIEW Yang Fei is dead. Arriving at the funeral parlor as directed, he's denied eternal rest because he has "neither urn nor grave"; over the next seven days, he revisits his short 41 years. Yang Fei was temporarily famous as "the boy a train gave birth...