A literary love story in the tradition of AS Byatt's 'Possession' and Ondaatje's 'The English Patient'. The novel shifts between contemporary Shanghai and ancient China as it follows Shen, an art collector who comes across a rare edition of Six Chapters of a Floating Life, a book written two centuries earlier.
Shen's real life begins to mysteriously mirror the content of the ancient text. In this unusual and compelling novel, Jose weaves sections of the original Six Chapters in red type through the contemporary story.
