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This book contains ten short stories with Wanma Caidan's personal style. It was published from 1995 to 2017, spanning more than 20 years. Two of them, "Tallow" and "Balloon", were adapted into movies of the same name, and won outstanding results in many domestic and foreign film awards such as the Venice Film Festival and Shanghai International Film Festival. On a night when the moon is round and big, the banging sound coming from the Mani stone pile is like a wordless life song; a stranger comes to the town and is persistently looking for a girl named Dolma; when he was seven years old, Kayang Tenzin was tempted by the scriptures, and this obsession led to reincarnation; Aung Ben, a young man who was about to have a happy event, encountered a daytime wandering in the afternoon... The life in remote Tibetan areas is mysteriously veiled in Wanma Tseden's novel. The writer's long-lasting and passionate gaze on his hometown has turned into fable-like stories that fall into every corner of his daily life.

This book collects ten short stories written by the novelist and director Wanma Tseden in recent years, showing the life portraits of ordinary Tibetan people: the village old man full of folk tales, the young son who is certified as the reincarnation of the living Buddha, the parents of the newborn who exhaust their efforts to breastfeed, the poet who committed arson... The wind blowing on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has etched out unique textures and directions for their stories. In the telling, the story gained extension, the legend gained an audience, and the myth gained a people. Wanma Tseden's writing style is simple and pure, embellished with a unique sense of humor, and actively explores the narrative.

Recommended by Wong Kar-Wai, Taiwan Golden Horse Award winner Wanma Tseden's short story collection includes the Venice Film Festival award-winning novel of the same name "Killing a Sheep". The collection contains thirteen stories. In the Tibetan land where daily life is as magical as it is, there are various colorful characters walking through it, including drunkards who are addicted to alcohol, respectful and pious lamas, butchers and masters who keep secrets, a shepherd boy who is obsessed with finding his own identity, and a drowsy girl who stands... They are lonely in their stubbornness, and they are lost in their desires. Whether he is swinging at the boundary between tradition and modernity, or searching between reality and dreams, Wanma Tseden can always use his unique writing style to make his characters and stories transform into a strange brilliance in the ordinary.

The film of the same name won the Best Adapted Screenplay Award at the 52nd Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, the "Best Film Award" and the "Student Jury Award" at the 16th Tokyo FILMeX Film Festival, the highest award "Best Film of the Year" at the 12th China Independent Film Festival, the highest award "Golden Tricycle Award" and "Paris Oriental Language Award" at the 22nd Vesour Asia International Film Festival in France. It was shortlisted for the "Horizon" competition unit of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival, and was selected into the Ten Outstanding Art Film Recommendations Exhibition by the China Film Directors Association. The ten stories are all carefully drawn. In the seemingly calm descriptions, the characters are calmly introduced and the narrative is unfolded. The dialogues between the characters are very distinctive and vividly express the characters' personalities, identities and statuses. Most of the storylines are simple, and the characters are simple and uncomplicated. However, there is a tension hidden in this seemingly simple narrative, such as: what effect the lack of food will have on people's minds and behaviors ("Pu Dai"); what kind of karma the temptation of desire will make people fall into. Barriers ("Temptation"); the polar opposite psychological distance between tourists and pilgrims ("The Artist", "Dusk on Pakko Street")... It is not difficult to understand the author's humanistic thinking, but his thinking is more implicit, hidden in literary narratives, without making moral judgments.

"Collection of Ruyi Stories" is based on the Tibetan folklore corpse language stories passed down from generation to generation about the Ruyi treasure corpse that can make the world full of gold and silver and extend people's lifespan to a hundred years. It contains twenty-four touching stories told by the Ruyi treasure corpse to the person who carries the corpse, Dejue Zangbu. "The Fragrance of Pine Wood" is a collection of Wanma Tseden's posthumous novels. It collects and organizes the representative works of Wanma Tseden as a novelist who are of great significance in different stages of literary creation, such as the unpublished posthumous novel "The Fragrance of Pine Wood", his debut novel "Man and Dog", the famous Chinese novel "The Dream of a Wandering Singer", and the original novel of the movie "In Search of Wisdom and Beauty", etc. "Only Half the Story" collects ten short stories written by the novelist and director Wanma Tseden in recent years, showing the life portraits of ordinary Tibetan people: the village old man full of folk tales, the young son who is certified as the reincarnation of the living Buddha, the parents of the newborn who exhaust their efforts to breastfeed, the poet who committed arson... The wind blowing on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has etched out unique textures and directions for their stories. "Ujin's Teeth" is a new collection of short stories by Wanma Tseden, including thirteen stories. Whether he is swinging at the boundary between tradition and modernity, or searching between reality and dreams, Wanma Tseden can always use his unique writing style to make his characters and stories transform into a strange brilliance in the ordinary.