Strange Beasts of China
Yan Ge and Jeremy Tiang
ISBN 10: 1911284444 ISBN 13: 9781911284444
Verlag: Tilted Axis Press, 2020
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Winner, English PEN award Runner-Up, 2021 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 'All we have are stories.' In the city of Yong'an, an amateur cryptozoologist is commissioned to uncover the stories of its fabled beasts. These creatures -- with their greenish stomachs or gills or strange birthmarks -- live alongside humans in near-inconspicuousness, some with ancient forbears, others engineered as artificial breeds. Guided - and often misguided - by her elusive university professor, and his scrappy student sidekick Zhong Liang, our narrator finds herself on a mission to track down each species. And as she blunders from one implausible situation to the next, she comes one step closer to revealing her own inner beast... Part detective story, part metaphysical enquiry, Strange Beasts addresses existential questions of identity, being, love and morality with whimsy and grace.
Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Yan Ge was born in Sichuan, China in 1984. She is a fiction writer in both Chinese and English. Yan's first short story collection was published in China when she was seventeen. She is the author of thirteen books, including six novels. She has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Maodun Literature Prize (Best Young Writer). She was named by People's Literature magazine as one of twenty future literature masters in China. Her work has been translated into English, French and German, among other languages. Her novels translated into English include The Chilli Bean Paste Clan (Balestier Press 2018, translated by Nicky Harman) and Strange Beasts of China (Tilted Axis Press 2020, translated by Jeremy Tiang). She lives in Norwich, UK. Jeremy Tiang has translated over thirty books from Chinese, including novels by Yan Ge, Yeng Pway Ngon, Lo Yi-Chin, and Zhang Yueran. He also writes and translates plays. His novel, State of Emergency, won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2018. He lives in Flushing, Queens.
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Titel: Strange Beasts of China
Verlag: Tilted Axis Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Fine