News at Eleven: Indeed, it was the "chilly honk" of a wild goose

heard through his [Yang Lian's] open bedroom window one night, "shattering the dark green glass-like silence of London," that inspired this volume.

These days it's footloose Chinese novelists who get the most attention from readers--writers like Ha Jin, who's been living in the U.S. for the past quarter-century, and Ma Jian, who calls London home.

from Time: Dream Weaver

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