HEAVY WINGS <i> by Zhang Jie translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt (Grove Weidenfield: $19.95; 308 pp.) </i>
” . . . if it is cumbersome, it is also delicate, shrewd and--once in a while--disarmingly funny, disarmingly lovely.
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