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Two Lives: Tales of Life, Love and Crime. Stories from China.

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By (author): A. Yi

Translated by: Alex Woodend

Seven stories, seven whispers into the ears of life: A Yis unexpected twists of crime burst from the everyday, with glimpses of romance distorted by the weaknesses of human motive. A Yi employs his forensic skills to offer a series of portraits of modern life, both uniquely Chinese, and universal in their themes. His years as a police officer serve him well as he teases the truth from simple observation, now brought into the English language in a masterful translation by Alex Woodend. The stories include Two Lives, Attic, Spring, Bach, Predator. The first in the new Flame Tree Press series, Stories from China.

FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launching in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 390g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Mar 2020
  • Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781787582781

About A. Yi

A Yi (author) is a celebrated Chinese writer living in Beijing. He worked as a police officer before becoming editor-in-chief of Chutzpah an avant garde literary magazine. He is the author of several collections of short stories and has published fiction in Granta and the Guardian. In 2010 he was shortlisted for the People's Literature Top 20 Literary Giants of the Future. A Perfect Crime his first book in English was published by Oneworld in 2015. He is noted for his unsentimental worldview and challenging literary style. Alex Woodend's (translator) fascination with Spanish and Chinese began at Franklin & Marshall College. He went on to study Chinese literature and history at Columbia University where his master's thesis explored early post-Mao literature. He has since translated several books into English and is at work on new translations and original writing.

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