The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Qiu Miaojin's Last Words from Montmartre, a 1996 work now coming out in translation from New York Review Books -- who will also be publishing her Notes of a Crocodile.
On the plus-side: this is shaping up to be a pretty good year of translations-from-the-Chinese in the US: okay, the over-hyped Decoded was a bit of a disappointment, but on top of this just in the last week I've gotten review copies of Xu Zechen's Running through Beijing (see the Two Lines Press publicity page) and Can Xue's The Last Lover (see the Yale University Press publicity page)
On the minus-side: yet another suicide. What the hell is it with books-by-suicides this year ? I can't seem to escape them. (And she was just twenty-six -- another one of these ridiculously young suicides.)
On the plus-side: this is shaping up to be a pretty good year of translations-from-the-Chinese in the US: okay, the over-hyped Decoded was a bit of a disappointment, but on top of this just in the last week I've gotten review copies of Xu Zechen's Running through Beijing (see the Two Lines Press publicity page) and Can Xue's The Last Lover (see the Yale University Press publicity page)
On the minus-side: yet another suicide. What the hell is it with books-by-suicides this year ? I can't seem to escape them. (And she was just twenty-six -- another one of these ridiculously young suicides.)