The Text publishing house continues to introduce the reader to the work of the young French writer of Chinese origin Shan Sa. In four short stories about love and death, united by the image of a weeping willow, considered in China a symbol of death and rebirth, the writer paints vivid pictures of the life of her homeland in different historical periods. The writer’s fantasy endows this tree with a female soul, doomed, dying and being reborn, to wander forever in searching for love. Four short stories about human passions, four sketches of China in different eras, four oriental miniatures of wondrous beauty. Four lives of a willow...