Can Xue is not a writer I know a whole lot about, and her work is only slowly making its way into English. I wouldn’t be surprised if she were to win the Nobel Prize this year or in the coming years because of the ways in which her writing is making its way over into different languages. I think this translation works, but I’ve always heard that Chinese/English translation of literature is a particularly fraught project. This novel is dark and sardonic throughout as […]