I was given this book at random by a friend and can honestly say it was the best book I have read in several years and I am an avid reader. It is well written, challanging, "real" and is really immensely topical. It worked on so many levels as a cracking good story, an insight into contempory China and contempory America, An insight to the afterlife that would challange you even if you had no faith. I kept feeling that this would make a great film. Any film makers out there with the vision or guts to do it???