Jan A.M. De Meyer Book order (chronological)

This deft translation of a classic Chinese novel tells the story of a man, now an itinerant healer, who wanders through the towns and countryside of North China in the last years of the Manchu dynasty.

During Mao's Cultural revolution, two boys are sent to re-education camps. There they discover a hidden suitcase packed with the great Western novels of the nineteenth century. Their lives are transformed.