From "China's most feted and most banned author" (Financial Times), an unforgettable tale of a village that descends into a sleepwalking spell as the sun threatens to never rise again
First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. Chi Ta-wei weaves dystopian tropes--heirloom animals, radiation-proof combat drones, sinister surveillance technologies--into a sensitive portrait of one young woman's quest for self-understanding.