On Waiting Atorie Wan Anna is not sick

Anna is not sick

and if she perished

Taiming can't help being caught up in the conflicts that shaped modern East Asian history

wrong roads taken to agreements mistaken

and heaps of other totally horrible villains too

On Waiting Atorie Wan Anna is not sick'This is a quite remarkable book, a pleasure to read. Not only is it clear and informative but also by turns witty, melancholic and insightful. The book is astonishingly erudite, but wears this learning so lightly and so charmingly that it is both easy and gripping to read.' Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University of London Penelope waits by her loom for Odysseus, Vladimir and Estragon wait for Godot, all of us have to for buses, phone calls and