A Pond, a Poet, and Three Pests Zhang Yihe The past is a battleground

The past is a battleground in many countries

and the obsessed detective

With blockbuster moments such as a terrifying North Korean missile incident

——罗伯特·帕特南[哈佛大学教授，《独自打保龄》作者]

A Pond, a Poet, and Three Pests Zhang Yihe The past is a battlegroundA funny new fable about artistic creation and chasing fame, imagined by award winning author Caroline Adderson, and inspired by one of Japans most famous haikus, The Old Pond. Bash, a 17th century poet on an evening walk, stops to rest next to a murky old pond. Here, readers may expect he will encounter the frog that inspired his renowned poem: Old pond Frog jumps in Splash! But before the frog came the mosquito, who smells blood: My life? she whines,