Following his classic work Book from the Sky", world-renowned Chineses artist Xu Bing presents a new graphic novel - one composed entirely of symbols and icons. Xu Bing spent seven years gathering materials, experimenting, revising, and arranging thousands of pictograms to construct this narrative. The result is a readable story without words recording 24 hours in the day of the life of a typical urban white-collar worker. Using an exclusively visual language, the text could be published anywhere without translation: anyone with experience in contemporary life can read it." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.