Collected Works of Ma Shitu (edited Edition): Ten Night Stories
by Ma Shitu
About This Novel
This book takes as its protagonists ten junior clerks in a government office in a small town in southwest China who are frustrated in their official careers and extremely bored. Through the unique narrative method of ten people taking turns telling stories in a "dragon gate formation", they talk about the various adventures they have experienced at night, recreating the various social situations in the 1930s. The sensational strange people and strange things in the officialdom, the strange rumors about the world... Leave those who hear it dumbfounded. The images are vivid and flexible, the plot is ups and downs, and the language is popular and humorous. In the author's pungent black humor, the world in eastern Sichuan during the Republic of China can be seen at a glance.
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