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Muyu, a 17-year-old from a small village, came to Beijing for his piece of the dream: money, love, a good life. But in the city, daily life for him & his friends--purveyors of fake IDs & false papers--is a careful balance of struggle & guile. Surveying the neighborhood from the rooftop of the apartment they all share; the young men play cards, drink beer, & discuss their hopes & aspirations. They watch as others like them--workers, students, drifters, and the just plain unlucky--get by the best ways they know how: by jogging excessively, herding pigeons, or building cars from scraps. As years pass with no end of the struggle in sight, dreams change shape & slowly recede into the horizon.Beijing Sprawl once again proves Xu Zechen to be one of our best chroniclers of those left behind by the Chinese Dream. In these gritty, interconnected stories, starkly translated from Chinese by Eric Abrahamsen & Jeremy Tiang, of street fights, disappearances, & unfulfilled romances, his characters & the city of Beijing itself come into vivid focus. And for Muyu, like so many of us in the modern world, friendship is rare & unexpected amid the sprawl of progress, & more valuable than an unreachable goal.
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Xu Zechen is the author of the novels Midnight’s Door, Night Train, Heaven on Earth, & Running Through Beijing (Two Lines Press, 2014). He was selected by People’s Literature as one of the “Future 20” best Chinese writers under 41.
Jeremy Tiang is a Singaporean writer, translator, & playwright, based in NYC. He has translated more than 10 books from Chinese & was recently honoured as the London Book Fair’s inaugural Translator in Residence.
Eric Abrahamsen is the recipient of translation grants from PEN & the NEA & has written for the New York Times, among others. In 2012 Penguin published his translation of The Civil Servant’s Notebook by Wang Xiaofang.
