A new novel by the 2012 Nobel laureate and the greatest Chinese writer of our time, Mo Yan, in a new colorful design! An unbearably beautiful novel about the heroic death of a folk singer, sentenced to the terrible sandalwood execution, during which a person must suffer for several days before expiring spirit. The suffocatingly majestic atmosphere of China at the beginning of the 20th century, mixed with semi-fairy-tale images and a symphony of horror.