A novel about a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. It interweaves their endless suppositions into a work that is at once political parable and surreal fantasia.
From the sensational Chinese author who has been called “a new world master,” a Kafkaesque novel set in a fictional Western nation
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The most ambitious work of fiction by one of the world’s greatest writers