Dust and Desire

In the fictional republic of Naranpur, a poor village boy claws his way toward the capital’s elite. To erase his origins and a burdensome secret wife, he commits an unthinkable act of violence. Modeled after a real dismemberment case, this novel—in the spirit of Jia Pingwa—portrays a world where deprivation and arrogance tear the soul apart, and the weight of survival crushes morality into dust.