The Golden Field of Wheat

by Zhou Daxin

This book is a collection of short stories by Zhou Daxin, a Mao Dun Literary Prize winning writer, included in Collected Works of Zhou Daxin (Short Stories). This is the first comprehensive review and collection of nearly 40 years of writing course of this author. It fully embodies the author's writing level, artistic value and, to a certain extent, reflects the height of the contemporary Chinese literature.

481 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2016

About the author

Zhou Daxin was born in 1952 in Dengzhou, Henan. Since first publishing in 1979 he has won the National Excellent Short Story Prize, the Feng Mu Prize and the Mao Dun Literature Prize. Many of his works have been adapted into plays, television series, movies and radio plays. Some works have been translated into English, French, German, Japanese, Czech and Korean. He currently lives and writes in Beijing. His works include the novels Out of the Basin, Twentieth Act, The Scenery of the Lake and Mountain, Legends of War, and Warning. The novella Sesame Oil Mill On The Banks was filmed as Les Femmes du lac aux âmes parfumées and won the 43rd Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear Award.