Candy the rook files and longing beneath the calm

and longing beneath the calm surface of ordinary lives

Is it grief

damaged 368 others

boasts a similar

and they turn to their former bodyguard

Candy the rook files and longing beneath the calmAn international literary phenomenon now available for the first time in English translation Candy is a hip, harrowing tale of risk and desire, the story of a young Chinese woman forging a life for herself in a world seemingly devoid of guidelines. Hong, who narrates the novel, and whose life in many ways parallels the author's own, drops out of high school and runs away at age 17 to the frontier city of Shenzen. As Hong navigates the temptations of