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World Books Feature: Summer Reads for the Adventurous

By World Books ⋅ July 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

51nSGnIigeL._SS500_-150x150It may be summer, but your brain needn’t go on vacation. My summer list of fiction in translation that demands and repays close attention.

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World Books Interview: Cao Naiqian and the Other China

By World Books ⋅ July 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

Theres-nothing-150x150Cao Naiqian’s terse style may owe something to the writer’s ‘legit’ job – since 1972 he has been a police detective in the Public Security Bureau of Datong City. Set in rural China during the Cultural Revolution, his stories are not routine police tales but offer indelible images of people on the edge, raw yet poetic depictions of violence and despair rooted in the denial of elemental needs for food, sex, and respect.

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