ABSTRACT
Everything in the village had changed. My change was the worst! How to be a man, a useful man, a good man? How to greet a friend? How to treat a neighbor? How to start a conversation with a relatíve? How to reply to Guihua's letter? How to go back to square one and create a new life in the countryside? In the evenings, when I was left alone, I read that long letter again and again. "Let me go over to the old man's house," I thought to myself. But when I reached my door I seemed to hear, "What kind of man are you?" "Do you know the word 'shame?'" "Do you have a man's 'face'?"
