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It's a moment everyone dreads: that moment before death. But what if it's just an ordinary moment when nothing happens? What if it's no different from any other moment in life, when a dying person can't even tell what's coming? That moment could attract no emotional upheaval at all. A Blissful Moment of Nothingness is a story about the past and the future. Everyone has a past, but Margaret Young is not someone who dwells on history, whether it...

A woman has brain surgery that lasts for fourteen hours, far longer than her surgeon expects. She survives the operation, but the first sentence she speaks after she gains consciousness is spoken in a dialect that nobody in the family understands. Like everyone in Hong Kong, the woman's family speaks Cantonese. Some older members also use Hakka, a dialect of the Guangdong Province. So when the woman starts talking in Chiu Chow, her family i...

Where there are ants, there is politics. Where there are a lot of ants, there's bound to be a lot of politics. Who are these ants and why should you read about them? Ants and education might not appear to have an obvious connection, but they go hand in hand in this novella. The story takes place in an imaginary colony of ants. It is therefore timeless. The novella considers the serious subject of education and the political issues ...