JASMINE TEA

‘But how sweet a fruit the ‘suppose’ must be that people will sup and sup on it! A juicy fruit like a lychee but without the pit sparkling and light green: a fruit that hides the tart within the sweet.’In this haunting collection of stories a young man’s obsession leads to tragedy and a woman’s bitterness poisons a family’s legacy. In delicate piercing prose Chang captures a world of quiet cruelties and calamitous desires in pre-revolutionary China.