Nothing but the Now
Seven Short Stories by WEN Zhen
Published on 30. June 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
295 pages
978-1-62643-085-3 (ISBN)
Description
Nothing but the Now is a collection of seven stories, most of them about chance encounters in the world, the consequences of greed and temptation, the inescapable past, and moral dilemmas that seem to be tailored to each character's flaws and foibles. The book explores the larger and more fundamental issues of life, death, love, and desire, and further interrogates the inter-relationships between the individual, the other, and the world. Each character in the stories must struggle to understand the meaning of his or her encounters and translate them into gains in their lives if they are to truly grow and arrive at themselves.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Los Angeles
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 130 mm
Width: 200 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
372 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62643-085-3 (9781626430853)
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WEN Zhen, born in 1982 in Hunan province, is the youngest Lao She Literature Prize winner and among the first group of MA graduates in Creative Writing in China from Peking University. In 2015, she won the "New Writer of The Year" of the Chinese Literature Media Awards with her work The Last Night We Were Together. Dave Haysom has been translating, editing, and writing about contemporary Chinese literature since 2012. He has translated novels by Feng Tang, Li Er, and Xu Zechen. He was joint managing editor of Pathlight magazine from 2014 to 2018, and editor-in-chief of the Read Paper Republic project in 2015.