Lapse of Time

Six short stories and a novella from Wang Anyi, the most popular Chinese woman writer of Shanghai. The stories tell much about the quality of life in China today and the different senses of value of the writer's generation. The text is translated with skill from the original, and the stories included are: The destination, And the rain patters on, Life in a small courtyard, The stage, a miniature world, The base of the wall, Between themselves, and Lapse of time.