Wild Bees in Flight

My cousin, driven mad by accident, dances with wild bees in the cave dwelling;The child never born visits his parents on the silent wasteland;At the childhood dinner table, who ate that red-skinned potato-me or my brother?Before Tiananmen Square, night winds billow through garments,My uncle, visiting Beijing for the first time, is lost in the vast, blissful night...Wild Bees in Flight collects six stories by author Zihe. Each tale stands alone, yet all are narrated by Gan Songming, a young migrant in Beijing. Love, illness, marriage, death, hometown-on that yellow earth where he was born and raised, memories abound that stir both sorrow and joy. Yet the urban life he has grown accustomed to brings new values. His body resides in the city, his soul in the countryside. This collection is dedicated to the vast multitude of urban-rural amphibians like Gan Songming.