Can Xue is the winner of 2015 Best Translated Book Award, nominated for 2019 Nobel Prize. She is consider to be the representative author in pioneering styles and internationally acclaimed as China's most creative author. In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flower beds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a community that normalizes paranoia and suspicion. Each life is circumscribed by buried secrets and transcendent delusions.