Books and tea leaves.

YuHua
translated by Michael Berry
To Live

Tragic as ever, without humour like Blood Merchant. Not sure I can take reading
another similar ilk by him.
Luckily, currently only 3 of his books (that I know of) had been translated into English.

Elmore Leonard
A Coyote's in the House

Cute and really quite charming!
Quite a departure from his usual.


Yu Hua
Translated by Andrew F. Jones
Chronicle of A Blood Merchant
(Xu Sanguan Mai Xue Ji)

Excellent! Intrinsically Chinese. Dark. Humorous.