The seventh day:

Yang Fei was born on a moving train. Lost by his mother, adopted by a young switchman, raised with simplicity and love, he is utterly unprepared for the tempestuous changes that await him and his country. As a young man, he searches for a place to belong in a nation that is ceaselessly reinventing i...

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Main Author: Yu, Hua (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Pantheon Books 2015
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Summary:Yang Fei was born on a moving train. Lost by his mother, adopted by a young switchman, raised with simplicity and love, he is utterly unprepared for the tempestuous changes that await him and his country. As a young man, he searches for a place to belong in a nation that is ceaselessly reinventing itself, but he remains on the edges of society. At age forty-one, he meets an accidental and unceremonious death. Lacking the money for a burial plot, he must roam the afterworld aimlessly, without rest. Over the course of seven days, he encounters the souls of the people he's lost
Item Description:On dust jacket: a novel. - Originally published in China as Diqi tian by New Star Press, Beijing, in 2013"--Title page verso
Physical Description:213 S. 22 cm

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