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It embodies the virtues its translator credits to the Chinese original: a gemlike lucidity that is radiant with humor, grace, largeheartedness, and deep wisdom."
Ms. Malcolm also hails Mr. Hughes's literary gifts ("he writes with brilliant, exasperated intelligence and a kind of Chekovian largeheartedness and melancholy"), his physical attractiveness and his "helpless honesty."