A Westerner faces down a heady concoction of reincarnation, magical wasps and violence to save his Chinese wife, while in a parallel world in ancient China, an astonishing woman single-handedly keeps marauding warriors at bay. The latest adventure from Yun Rou, author of the best-selling thriller A Cure for Gravity, Wasp Warrior is literary magical realism with an Asian twist, and an intimate portrait of madness and love from a writer who spans East and West in a myriad way.