The Seventh day (Chinese Edition) This edition is out of print, the new editon ISBN 9787513331418

'I walked out of the rental house into the dense fog and smoke-filled night. As I walked around the city I was overwhelmed by the transformation of emptiness within the streets. I was in search of a place called a funeral parlor, formerly refered to as a crematorium. I was instinctively aware that I must arrive at the crematorium before nine o'clock, because my own cremation would occur around 9:30.' This is the opening of Yu Hua's new full-length novel, called 'The Seventh Day', which leaves its readers in a fluctuating state of suspense. Will the man, destined for cremation, leave something special to his readers? Yu Hua introduces a story with incredible style and imagination, even more so than in his previous novel, 'Alive', and more suspenceful than 'Brother'. Readers will walk along side the characters experiencing the cold atmosphere like being trapped in glaciers during a severe winter storm. Enduring endless pain and cruel angst, as if undergoing insurmountable stress but finding no refuge in an endlessly challenging wilderness.