The Sound of Broad Beans Late at Night: Hidden Voices Along the Silk Road (Hometown Trilogy)

From a writer’s dialogue with a Sinologist come nineteen poignant Silk Road stories of resilient western Chinese people, their joys, grief, struggles and dreams. Featuring “Old Man Xinjiang” (*The Guardian*, 2012), translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin, famed translators of Nobel laureates.