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Strange Beasts of China

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by Yan Ge
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Availability:In StockContributor:Yan Ge, Jeremy Tiang (Translator)Publish date:2022-03-15Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Melville House PublishingISBN-13:9781612199702ISBN-10:1612199704UPC:9781612199702Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Fantasy, Magical Realism, LiteraryBook Topic:ContemporarySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC57YDRQ9S
A New York Times Editors' Choice

"Luminous and beguiling . . ."--The Washington Post

"Magical Realism at its best . . ."--The Wall Street Journal

From one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Chinese literature, an uncanny and playful novel that blurs the line between human and beast...


In the fictional Chinese city of Yong'an, an amateur cryptozoologist is commissioned to uncover the stories of its fabled beasts. These creatures live alongside humans in near-inconspicuousness--save their greenish skin, serrated earlobes, and strange birthmarks.
Aided by her elusive former professor and his enigmatic assistant, our narrator sets off to document each beast, and is slowly drawn deeper into a mystery that threatens her very sense of self.

Part detective story, part metaphysical enquiry, Strange Beasts of China engages existential questions of identity, humanity, love and morality with whimsy and stylistic verve.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Melville House PublishingISBN-13:9781612199702ISBN-10:1612199704UPC:9781612199702Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Fantasy, Magical Realism, LiteraryBook Topic:ContemporarySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC57YDRQ9S
Yan Ge was born in Sichuan, China in 1984. She is a fiction writer in both Chinese and English. She is the author of thirteen books, including six novels. She has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Maodun Literature Prize (Best Young Writer), and 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.

Jeremy Tiang is a Singaporean writer, translator, and playwright, based in New York City. He has translated more than ten books from Chinese and was recently honoured as the London Book Fair's inaugural Translator in Residence.
Publisher: Melville House Publishing

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Yan Ge, Jeremy Tiang (Translator)

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Yan Ge

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