From the Granta Magazine Editions series: these gritty, surreal stories by one of the most highly-celebrated young Chinese writers reveal new and striking visions of life in China today.

A brave and revelatory account of how a small-minded, low-level KGB operative came to control the world's largest country and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress, making Russia once more a threat to her own people and to the world - now with a new preface