The Corpse Walker
by Liao Yiwu
Liao Yiwu spent ten years in jail, where he was put with the ordinary criminals, so he mixed with all kinds of people and interviewed them and recorded their life stories, and it’s an extraordinary testimony about how people live at the bottom of society. Through the story of their lives you have a record of recent Chinese history: a kind of mirror of the life that has been lived by individuals.
