鸟看见我了

A Yi's second collection of short stories is drawn largely from his experiences as a police officer, though his eerily cold style keeps the tales from being anything like standard crime fiction. The title story is ostensibly about a mysterious case of six murders committeed within two hours using a small knife, by a man who will say nothing except, while drunk, "the bird saw me…" But the fabric of the story itself, which is told from two different points of view and filled with bizarre dialogue, is so unusual that the overall impression is less that of a whodunit and more that of an uneasy dream. Few contemporary Chinese writers have such deliberate, subtle control over their work.