The Last Quarter of the Moon: A Novel (Seedbank) 章詒和 Japan's ultimate bad boy novelist"

Japan's ultimate bad boy novelist" —Damian Flanagan

Given how swiftly and fundamentally China's relations with the rest of the world are changing under Xi's rule

In Book 1 of this 3-Part series

a passionate man whose never-ending quest for pleasure leads him from the glitzy brothels of Edo (modern-day Tokyo) and the elegant boudoirs of Kyoto to moonlit trysts along quiet lanes in the Japanese countryside

from the Victorian ethos to the Jewish question

The Last Quarter of the Moon: A Novel (Seedbank) 章詒和 Japan's ultimate bad boy novelist"In this sweeping epic, full of love and loss, a woman from one of the last remote reindeer herding tribes of northeastern China tells the story of her family and the last century of her countrys history. A long time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety years old. The rain and snow have weathered me, and I too have weathered them. At dawn, an elder sits among the birch trees while the rest of her tribe descend the mountain to permanently