"Liu’s art...is quite representative of a new generation of writers... who accept no subordination in matters of artistic expression."

--San Francisco Bay Guardian

"Liu Heng is one of the new voices in Chinese literature who dare to explore the sights and sounds of Chinese lives previously barred from literary representation."

--Library Journal

Black Snow is the stunning portrait of a dissatisfied and emotionally illiterate young man’s search for meaning and companionship in the gray world under totalitarianism．

After serving a three·year sentence in a prison labor camp for his involvement in a iuvenile street fight,Li Huiquan returns to Beijing and begins work as a street peddler．It is ioyless，trying work，and he can barely contain his disdain for the crowds 0f people eager to snatch up foreign noods...