The Crazed 香港 which will shrivel you to

which will shrivel you to a bouillon cube of your most primal instincts” (Vulture)

Panlilio narrates her experience as a journalist

combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings

「物怪」是什麼？物怪這一神祕現象以多種面貌現身，無論是被視為自然力量的化身、怨靈的顯現，還是不可思議的變異之物，它們的故事跨越時空，代代流傳。在不同社會、文化的詮釋下，物怪既是恐懼的象徵，也是人類面對未知時的心靈投射。物怪的故事，從古至今，未曾斷過，這些神祕的存在深深嵌入在人們對所處社會、自然環境與宇宙秩序的想像之中。

The Crazed 香港 which will shrivel you toSince the appearance of his first book of stories in English, Ha Jin has won the National Book Award and the PEN Faulkner Award, and garnered comparisons to Dickens, Balzac, and Isaac Babel. Like Babel, wrote Francine Prose in The New York Times Book Review, Ha Jin observes everything . . . yet he tells the reader onlyand preciselyas much as is needed to make his deceptively simple fiction resonate on many levels. In his luminous new novel, the author