Hu Wenliang, a writer from China’s Shanxi province, is offering a $17,000 reward for whomever can decode his latest novel — which consists entirely of a set of 14 punctuations, and not a single word.
He claimed those 14 marks represent a touching love story, reported by the Beijing Daily Messenger on Wednesday.
It might be the shortest novel ever, and it might be the only novel without a word.
But Hu Wenliang, the author the novel entitled , claimed that he spent one year to write a novel with five sections as follows:
：？
：！
“‘……’”
（、）·《，》
；——
Link to China Daily story (Thanks, Susannah Breslin)