Old Tales Retold
Eight pieces rework the founding stories: Nüwa patching the sky, Yi the archer with nothing left to shoot, Yu curbing the flood past a commission of experts, Laozi dictating his book at the pass to get clear of the customs post. The sages keep their canonical lines and are surrounded by bureaucrats, hecklers and men on expenses who talk like Shanghai in the 1930s. His last book of fiction, assembled over thirteen years and long dismissed as a joke before being read as his most corrosive work.
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