The VagrantsThe novel from the Guardian First Book Award winning Chinese writer acclaimed by Michel Faber as having the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries to be a truly fine writer. In the provincial town of Muddy Waters in China, a young woman named Gu Shan is sentenced to death for her loss of faith in Communism. She is twenty eight years old and has already spent ten years in prison. The citizens stage a protest after her death