Pocket Books-Simon & Schuster UK Ltd

In the Beginning Having a child is problematic, wrote Leonard Woolf when in his eighties, and childless. It concerns the 'new human being' as much as its parents, since this new human being is born without having given its consent. One should think twice, 'from the point of view of the...

Chapter oneJackson studied the shopping mall's long corridor, noting haggard mothers piloting loaded strollers and the senior citizens group walking the mail both for exercise and conversation. Dressed in a gray pinstriped suit, the stocky Jackson stared intently at the north entrance to the...

It was Wang Lung's marriage day. At first, opening his eyes in the blackness of the curtains about his bed, he could not think why the dawn seemed different from any other. The house was still except for the faint, gasping cough of his old father, whose room was opposite to his own across the...