Table of contents : Cover Half-title Page Title Page Foreword Contents A Knife on a Desert Night A Desert Diner The Marriage Chronicles 1. 2. 3. Apothecary Child Bride Night in the Wasteland The Desert Bathing Spectacle Looking for Love Nice Neighbours Dilettante Fishermen Seed of Death A Ladder Hearth and Home My Great Mother-in-Law Stealing Souls Sergeant Salva Hitchhikers The Mute Slave Crying Camels Lonesome Land Milestones in the Life of Sanmao Translator's Note Structure and Mechanics Style Spanish and Arabic Cultural and Literary Allusions Notes Translator's AcknowledgementsNote on the Author Note on the Translator Copyright Page