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About the Author
Yan Ge was born in Sichuan in the People’s Republic of China. She recently completed a PhD in comparative literature at Sichuan University, and is the chairperson of the China Young Writer Association. Her early work focused on the wonders, gods and ghosts of Chinese myth and made her especially popular with teenagers. The novel May Queen (2008) saw her break through as a critically acclaimed author. She now writes realist fiction, strongly Sichuan-based, focusing with warmth, humour and razor-sharp insights on squabbling families and small-town life. People’s Literature magazine recently chose her as one of China’s twenty future literary masters, and in 2012 she was chosen as Best New Writer by the prestigious Chinese Literature Media Prize.
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Fiction
The Family of Joy
The Symphony of Sound
Tale of Nine Monsters
The Guan River
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Spring in Tao Le
Moments of Bliss
Buried in Seventeen Months
Lantana of Marmora
Essay
The observer of clouds
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