The narrator of this story is a boy who leaves California to attend a college in New England. He falls in with a group of students of Ancient Greek. Four of their number work themselves into a trance-like condition one night, and murder a local farmer.
Ichiro Kishimi lives in Kyoto. He writes, lectures and teaches in psychiatric clinics as a certified counsellor and consultant for the Japanese Society of Adlerian Psychology.
El autor de The Four Books, con isbn 978-0-8021-2469-2, es Yan Lianke.
Otros libros de Lianke, Yan son Duro Como El Agua, Canción Celestial De Balou, La Muerte Del Sol, Días, Meses, Años, Crónica De Una Explosión, Los Cuatro Libros, El Somni Del Poble Ding y Los Besos De Lenin. Ver su bibliografía.