The four books A novel.

From the Franz Kafka Prize-winning author of Lenin's Kiss , a "stupendous and unforgettable" novel of Mao's China ( The Times , London). In the ninety-ninth district of a re-education compound, freethinking artists and academics are detained to strengthen their loyalty to Communist ideologies. Here, the Musician and her lover, the Scholar, along with the Author and the Theologian, are subjected to grinding physical labor. They are also encou...