Jia Pingwa is the author of eighteen novels, including Turbulence (1988), Ruined Capital (1993) and, most recently, The Shaanxi Opera.
‘Your friends might never know you intimately. There are those that will know you intimately but never be your friend.’
Jia Pingwa on friendship.
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