City of Fiction,” a novel by Yu Hua, follows a man on a search for his missing wife amid bandits and warlords.

His soul won’t be laid to rest until he appears for his appointment with the incinerator. Hua’s (Boy in the Twilight) eighth book follows 41-year-old Yang Fei’s Yu Hua, trans. from the ...

The new novel from Yu Hua, one of China’s bestselling writers, is a curious beast: part-traditional parable, part-Quentin ...