The Dog

Set in the shifting landscape of contemporary China, Jack Living´s debut story collection, The Dog, explodes the country´s cultural and social fault lines. In this riveting, richly imagined collection of stories, a wealthy factory owner - once a rural peasant - refuses to help the victims of an earthquake until his daughter starts a relief effort of her own; a powerful Uyghur gangster clashes with his homosexual grandson; and a man struggles to undertake a physically impossible task - constructing a giant crystal sarcophagus for the dead leader... This book is Winner of the 2015 PEN/Robert W Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction.