Exploring dirty truths about purity

Xue Yiwei's Empty Nest tells the story of a swindled elderly woman.

Xue Yiwei's novel Empty Nest considers a novel notion - purity isn't always good.

The book uses a narrative brimming with analogies related to ideas of filth and cleanliness in portraying a day in the life of a single, elderly woman, who receives a phone call from a fraudster pretending to be a policeman.