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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled The Bridegroom about Waiting, Bridegroom, China with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies?
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conversations.value: This new collection of short stories by the award-winning author of Waiting confirms the author's reputation as a master storyteller, as well as a master of the miniature. In The Bridegroom, the twelve stories capture a China in transition, moving from Maoism towards a more open society. For these men and women, starting to feel the influence of the West, the daily dramas of a system that still struggles to control their every move and thought are made all the more painful by this. As his characters, from an entrepreneur, transformed from black-market criminal to free market hero, to the workers at Cowboy Chicken, to the professor mistaken by the police for a saboteur, continue to struggle against petty injustices and heartbreaks, the author celebrates their lives and humanity with the understated humour and simplicity that has won him widespread acclaim.