Strange Beasts of China
Published on 26. November 2020
220 pages
978-1-911284-43-7 (ISBN)
Description
In the city of Yong'an, a fiction writer and 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 sidekick-student 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 multifaceted beastliness...
Part detective story, part metaphysical enquiry, Strange Beasts of China addresses existential questions of identity, being, love and morality with whimsy and grace.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
1,72 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-911284-43-7 (9781911284437)
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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. She lives in Norwich, UK, and is fluent in English.
