Descripción
A provincial ambulance drives through the night in search of a hospital, a fifth-rate actor goes method as a hitman on a sweltering rooftop, a legendary knife fighter is found working on the factory floor of a northern village.
Hunter's stories of deceptive, brutal realism play with myth and history, offering a vision of ordinary life in China with a magic realist turn.
Filled with dark humor and written with a tinge of noir, these fictions grapple with the realities of contemporary China, and show why Shuang Xuetao is the most highly-celebrated young writer working in the country today.
Granta Magazine Editions is a paperback original series of exceptional literary voices published by Granta magazine.
Author: Shuang Xuetao
Publisher: Granta Magazine Editions
Published: 07/01/2025
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9781738536245
ISBN10: 1738536246
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Fantasy | Contemporary
- Fiction | World Literature | China | General
- Fiction | Magical Realism
About the Author
Jeremy Tiang is a novelist, playwright and literary translator. He has translated over thirty books from across the Chinese-speaking world, including novels by Yeng Pway Ngon, Yan Ge, Lo Yi-Chin, Liu Xinwu and Zhang Yueran. Most recently, his translation of Zou Jingzhi's Ninth Building was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023. He has been a translator-in-residence at Princeton University and the University of Iowa, and chaired the jury for the National Book Award in Translated Literature.