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- ISBN 9781738536245
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jun 2025
- Publisher: Granta Publications Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A provincial ambulance drives through the night in search of a hospital, a fifth-rate actor goes method as a hitman on a sweltering rooftop, a legendary knife fighter is found working on the factory floor of a northern village. Hunter's stories of deceptive, brutal realism play with myth and history, offering sketches of ordinary life that take a magic realist turn.
Filled with dark humour and written with a tinge of noir, these stories grapple with the realities of life in contemporary China.
Shuang Xuetao has written seven volumes of fiction, for which he has won the Blossoms Literary Prize, the Wang Zengqi Short Story Prize, and the Blancpain-Imaginist Award for the best Chinese writer under forty-five. His short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Astra Magazine and Brick, and a collection of three novellas, Rouge Street, was published in English in 2022. His work has been adapted for both television and film. He lives in Beijing.
Jeremy Tiang is a novelist, playwright and literary translator. He has translated over thirty books from across the Chinese-speaking world, including novels by Yeng Pway Ngon, Yan Ge, Lo Yi-Chin, Liu Xinwu and Zhang Yueran. Most recently, his translation of Zou Jingzhi's Ninth Building was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023. He has been a translator-in-residence at Princeton University and the University of Iowa, and chaired the jury for the National Book Award in Translated Literature.
