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This collection includes four book-centered mystery novellas from four masters of the craft: The Scroll, Reconciliation Day, The Compendium of Srem, and The Mysterious Disappearance of the Reluctant Book Fairy.

The situation in Cuba is a disaster. The only income is two billion received from sending their supposed doctors to communist countries in Latin America. Many of those doctors are spies. Another billion comes from exiles in Miami. That must stop. The total GNP of Cuba is four billion, which cannot remotely support the population of Cuba. They don't have food or medicine and demonstrate every night against the dictatorship

Lin Zhe is one of China’s foremost authors. In this gripping novel, Zhe incorporates the War of Resistance against Japan, New China's arduous journey from Liberation in 1949 through Mao's Cultural Revolution, and up to the present day to form a compelling backdrop for her portrayal of three generations of a Chinese family struggling to survive war, revolutionary politics, the demands of a timeless patriarchal social order, and the conflict between family obligations and individual aspirations.