One hundred years old and confined to a nursing home, Ears looks back on his life. His story begins when he is sixteen and a slave in the corrupt Cao household. The wayward young master of the house returns to China from France with a dashing foreign engineer and plans to establish a match factory. He also has a beautiful new wife who is adored by Ears but who embarks on a disastrous affair with the French engineer. In disgrace, the young wife asks Ears and her servant girl to escape with her on a barge down the Green River. Green River Daydreams is a story about unrequited love; the collision between East and West; the tensions between China's feudal past and its communist present; and the complex relationship between master and servant. It is a heroic, tragic and stunningly accomplished novel by the foremost voice in contemporary Chinese literature.

One hundred years old and confined to a nursing home, Ears looks back on his life, beginning when he was 16 and a slave in a large household. It is a tale of unrequited love, the collision between East and West and the tensions between past and present.

Liu Heng was born in Beijing in 1954, the son of peasants from the Wanping province. He joined the navy when he was fifteen. His novella, Fuxi Fuxi was the basis for the acclaimed art-house film, Ju Dou. He is also the author of Black Snow

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