Yu Hua 
Affairs of Human Life Are Faded like a Puff of Smoke 

This book includes 8 novelettes and short stories created by Yu Hua, the author of the contemporary Chinese classic, Be Alive, from 1986 to 1998, namely Go out for a Long Journey at the Age of 18, The Noon in the Northwest Wind, The Narration of Death, The Love Story, Decreed by Fate, The History of Two People, The Inevitable Fate and Affairs of Human Life Are Faded like a Puff of Smoke.