From multi-award-winning author Yan Ge, a shimmering, genre-bending English-language debut that announces the next phase in a major literary career.
This highly anticipated collection is further proof that Yan Ge is a generational literary talent, to be watched closely for decades to come..
Brilliant and irresistibly readable, Elsewhere explores the utility (or not) of art in the face of lonesomeness, quotidian, and spectacular.
Through it all Yan Ge\'s protagonists peer thoughtfully at their own feelings of displacement--physical or emotional, the result of travel, emigration, or exile.
Weaving between reality and dreamy surreality, these nine Stories wend toward elsewhere , a comforting, frustrating, just-out-of-reach place familiar to anyone who has ever experienced longing.
And a Confucian disciple returns to the Master bearing a jar full of grisly remains.
Against her better judgment, a college student begins to fall for an acquaintance who might be dead.
A young woman bonds with an encampment of poets after a devastating earthquake.
The result is a collection humming with her trademark wit and style--and with the electricity of a seasoned artist flexing her virtuosity with a new medium.
Now, Yan Ge transposes her dynamic storytelling onto another linguistic landscape.
In twenty years, Yan Ge has authored thirteen books written in Chinese, working across an impressive range of genres and subjects.
From multi-award-winning author Yan Ge, a shimmering, genre-bending English-language debut that announces the next phase in a major literary career
