The Corpse Walker : Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up Condition:Very Good and very beautiful” (The New

and very beautiful” (The New York Times Book Review)

with any deal

humanizes a downtrodden

From Salvador Dali's pet ocelot Babou to John Lennon and Yoko Ono's menagerie of cats

to French haute cuisine and cutting-edge molecular gastronomy

The Corpse Walker : Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up Condition:Very Good and very beautiful” (The NewThe Corpse Walker is a compilation of twenty seven extraordinary oral histories that opens a window, unlike any other, onto the lives of ordinary, often outcast, Chinese men and women. Liao Yiwu (one of the best known writers in China because he is also one of the most censored) chose his subjects from the bottom of Chinese people for whom the new China the China of economic growth and globalization is no more beneficial than the old. By asking