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A special investigator is sent to Liquorland to look into reports that officials are cooking and eating baby boys, and is drunk almost as soon as he arrives.
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Brothers
Baldy Li and Song Gang, stepbrothers in a small town, live through the Cultural Revolution as boys and through China's wild capitalist boom as men.
Big Breasts and Wide Hips
Shangguan Lu, a peasant woman in Gaomi, bears eight daughters and at last a son, Jintong, whose account of the family runs from the Japanese invasion to the 1990s.
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
Ximen Nao, a landowner executed in the land reform of 1950, protests his innocence in hell and is sent back to his village as a donkey, then an ox, a pig, a dog and a monkey, to watch China change over fifty years.
Frankenstein in Baghdad
A Baghdad junk dealer stitches together body parts that come alive as a creature seeking justice.
The Tin Drum
A boy born with a scream that can shatter glass drums his way through the horrors of Nazi Germany, refusing to grow up in a world not worth being adult in.
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China
The complete fiction of Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature, from A Madman's Diary to the story of Ah-Q, a village labourer who turns every humiliation into a victory.
Interior Chinatown
A background actor in a Chinatown cop show realises his entire life has been scripted by stereotypes, and breaks the fourth wall to rewrite his story.
Heart of a Dog
A stray dog in 1920s Moscow is surgically transformed into a human, and the resulting creature becomes a savage satire of the New Soviet Man.
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
Saunders' debut collection of stories set in failing theme parks and corporate wastelands, including a Civil War park with real ghosts, established his mix of satire and heartbreak.
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
In 1988 Ali Shigri, a junior officer in the Pakistani air force whose father was found hanged, plots to kill President Zia, who is about to die in a plane crash anyway.
Deadeye Dick
At twelve, Rudy Waltz fires a rifle from the cupola of his father's house in Midland City, Ohio, and kills a pregnant woman eight blocks away. He spends the rest of his life, and a fair number of recipes, trying to live it down.
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
Baron Béla Wenckheim, a gambler who has spent years in exile in Argentina, comes back to his Hungarian home town to find his first love, and the town prepares to welcome a saviour.