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This collection of a novella and three stories was named one of the top ten “best books of Asia” of 1996 and won wide critical acclaim. Reviewers say the author “addresses the prudery of Confucian values” and remark “the streak of mischief in the tapestry of her story line.” Others note that “though the subject matter can be raunchy, the sleaze element is conspicuously absent,” and also that her work is “arrestingly poignant.”