Massage

At the Sha Zongqi massage centre, everyone who works on the clients is blind, and each lives in a world the sighted barely know. Sha Fuming and Zhang Zongqi, its owners, are ambitious; Dr Wang and Xiao Kong worry about how to get married; young Xiao Ma is caught between desire and decency; Jin Yan crosses the country to win the man she wants. Burly Dr Wang takes a knife to his own body on behalf of his good-for-nothing brother. Du Hong, a musical prodigy who can play any tune she hears once, refuses to be pitied on charity stages and turns to massage instead. Zhang Zongqi, threatened as a child, still dreads that someone will put poison in his food. Each guards a fragile independence in a world built for the sighted.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

China

First published

2008 by People's Literature Publishing House

Author's age

44 when first published

ISBN

9780670080977 (Penguin China, Australia)