Author Description

A Flock in the Wilderness (English Edition) selects 6 short stories by Chi Zijian, covering the writer's experience in northeast China, a haunted house, lost lovers, the comings and goings of modern people's emotion and the simplicity and persistence of country love. One piece tells that a couple without children in urban area for many years adopted a boy from the countryside, because the boy's family in the country was really impoverished. The boy's elder sister kept crying and screaming. After a time, the couple decided to pay a visit to the rural family only to find that the girl was gone. It turned out that the girl missed her little so much that she became sick and died after the boy was sent away...