Zhang Wei - Hétféle gomba

The novel by one of the most significant writers of Chinese literature, which was revived after the Cultural Revolution, depicts the intertwined fate of a wise old man and the characters grouped around him with the tools of magical realism and surrealism. The garland of real and wonderful stories, interspersed with folk beliefs, presents a strange world in which animals endowed with human characteristics, magical and murderous mushrooms appear. And by the time the main work of old Ding's life, The Mushroom Determinant, is finished, answers to the questions of love and desire, power and struggle, loyalty and betrayal will be found.