Baby Under the Starry Sky: A Devilish Romantic's Confession

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Features: The Infant Beneath the Stars is so enchanting, its fragrant and meticulously polished style has reached the height of the ornateness of Proust and Nabokov. Like Proust, in his works, life is essentially an exile that is both lonely and constantly escaping the present, just like a dazzling mirage that constantly shifts and moves. Only a master of words can instantly capture its charm. Max said, "Life is short and filled with sorrow, but I still love life." His heart-wrenching and distorted existence is presented in magnificent prose and refined brushwork, resembling a special model among various human types—one that is strange and exaggerated, both mute and piercing. —John Updike (John Updike)
By chance, such a primal voice, as if it came from nowhere, suddenly emerges, telling a story completely different from what we have ever heard. Grier is a completely new writer, and I believe that The Infant Beneath the Stars will mark the beginning of an important and long-lasting career for him. —Michael Cunningham (author of The Hour’s)
An extremely solemn and beautiful fable, in The Infant Beneath the Stars, Grier revisits the central theme he is concerned with in his novel: how time destroys love, and how love retaliates. —San Francisco Chronicle
Grier's prose is incredibly delicate; its light, turn-of-the-century rhythm and poetic glow perfectly capture this strange, heart-wrenching, and hypnotically enchanting legend. —Publishing Weekly
Our protagonist is a strange creature. At birth, his body is already aged like that of a seventy-year-old. As time passes, he gradually ages from old to young, until he becomes a child. By the time he reaches sixty, he looks like a ten-year-old boy.