Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge

Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge

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.

Yan Ge was born in the Chinese province of Sichuan in 1984 and currently resides in Dublin. She is a Comparative Literature PhD candidate who was a visiting scholar at Duke University in 2011 and a writer in residence at the Crossing Border Festival in the Netherlands in November 2012. Yan Ge focuses on feuding families and small-town life in his realistic, funny literature, which is primarily Sichuan-based. People's Literature magazine has designated her one of China's 20 future literary masters. Her works have been translated into a variety of languages, including German, French, and others. The novella White Horse is one of her works that has been translated into English.

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ISBN 13	9781612199702
ISBN 10	1612199704
Title	Strange Beasts of China
Author	Yan Ge
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Melville House Publishing
Year published	2022-03-15
Number of pages	240
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