
In this enchanting first novel, an irrepressibly optimistic oddball orphan is thrust into the wilds of postwar New York City after an extraordinary childhood in a theater -- Candide by way of John Irving, with a hint of Charles Dickens. Abandoned ...
After his mother's death, a baby born inside the coffin was said to have survived by absorbing the corpse's aura-an ill omen known as the coffin child.Gu Jiu, transported from the modern era, inhabited the dead infant's body. His soul failed to fuse ...