Screams – Lu Xun

Cries is the collection that put Lu Xun on the map: 14 stories filled with brutal fascination, stories born in the early years of the ruined Chinese republic.

With strokes as sharp as a scalpel, Lu Xun exposes the death throes of a society caught between superstition and hopelessness. Characters like the protagonist of Diary of a Madman, Kong Yiji, or Ah Q, are not just characters: they are requiems, broken mirrors of a country that doesn't understand its own collapse.

Told in innovative vernacular Chinese, each story offers a devastating perspective: tradition as a prison and literature as the only possible outlet.

It includes titles such as: Diary of a Madman, Kong Yiji, Medicine, Tempest in a Teacup, The Home Village and the monumental The True Story of Ah Q, among other unforgettable stories.