Strange Beasts Of China Yì Shòu Zhì Yan Ge Jeremy Tiang Translation by Yan Ge, Jeremy Tiang (translation) 9781911284437, 1911284436 instant download after payment.

Winner of an English PEN award, Strange Beasts of China is a disquieting bestiary that blurs the line between human & beast told with stylistic verve by one of most exciting voices in contemporary Chinese Literature 

In the fictional Chinese town of Yong'an, monsters & spirits live, almost indistinguisably, alongside humans. Strange Beasts of China follows the narrator, an amateur cryptozoologist, as she attempts to document each type of beast with the help of her former professor & his enigmatic assistant.

From the Sacrificial Beasts, who can't stop dying, to the Heartsick Beasts, who are genetically engineered to be as loyal & loving as possible, each chapter introduces a new beast & dives deeper into a mystery that threatens the narrator's very sense of self. In prose that is both whimsical & daring, Yan Ge Guides the reader through the underbelly of a chillingly uncanny world & questions what it really means to be human.

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Winner of an English PEN award

Runner-Up, 2021 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation

‘All we have are stories.’

In the city of Yong’an, an amateur cryptozoologist is commissioned to uncover the stories of its fabled beasts. These creatures — with their greenish stomachs or gills or strange birthmarks — live alongside humans in near-inconspicuousness, some with ancient forbears, others engineered as artificial breeds.

Guided – & often misguided – by her elusive university professor, & his scrappy student sidekick Zhong Liang, our narrator finds herself on a mission to track down each species. And as she blunders from one implausible situation to the next, she comes one step closer to revealing her own inner beast…

Part detective story, part metaphysical enquiry, Strange Beasts addresses existential questions of identity, b