LI PEIFULi Peifu is the author of twelve novels. His best-known work is The Book of Life, which portrays China's half-century transformation through orphan Wu Zhipeng's escape from the poverty of his native village in Henan province. It is also the finale ofhis Plains Trilogy, after the 1999 Gate of the Sheep and the 2003 Light of the City, and won him the 9th Mao Dun award. Read More Read Less