Winner of the 2015 PENRobert W Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Set in the shifting landscape of contemporary China Jack Living's debut story collection The Dog explodes the country's cultural & 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; & a man struggles to undertake a physically impossible task
- constructing a giant crystal sarcophagus for the dead leader With spare penetrating prose Livings gives shape to the anonymous faces in the crowd & illuminates the tensions ironies & possibilities of life in modern China As heartbreaking as it is hopeful The Dog marks the debut of a startling & wildly imaginative new voice in fiction