This is a New York Time Notable book of the year 2015. "A thrilling journey through a thousand years of obsession and betrayal, this is the most extraordinary work of imagination you\'ll read all year." (Adam Johnson, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for. "[A] kaleidoscopically imaginative novel...
Barker stitches together an unnervingly perceptive portrait of China and of the enduring influence that its past has on the present." (The New Yorker).
It was Shortlisted for the Kirkus Review Prize 2015.
This is a New York Time Notable book of the year 2015