The Visitor

Set in a modern third-world nation state, Chin Ce is seen here concerned with the quest for wholeness signified in the retrieval of a lost memory. All knowledge of who we are, this story asserts, spans three dimensions of existence: past, present and future intertwined. Thus the novelist is not so much concerned with the follies and frailties of human conduct as with the inexorable growth that attends our actions and pushes the frontiers of awareness beyond the ken of mundane lives.