Huì Shuōhuà De Yīngwǔ

Fanfan, ten, spends his own savings on the old grey parrot nobody wants at a Fuzhou bird market, because all it says is: Axiu, dinner's ready. A phone number that no longer exists, a banyan tree in the old lanes, a neighbour who remembers -- and in a care home, a ninety-year-old man who hasn't spoken in a year.