Border Town by Shen Congwen, translated by Jeffrey C. Kinkley
04 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Translation
September 26 through October 3 this year is "Banned Books Week"! Good thing someone one told me! So how fitting that I was lucky enough to receive Border Town, the pre-Communist Revolution masterpiece by Shen Congwen (1902-1988), who although virtually unknown in the West, is...