Rouge Street: Three Novellas by Shuang Xuetao, translated by Jeremy Tiang, introduction by Madeleine Thien [in Shelf Awareness]
The three novellas in Rouge Street, Shuang Xuetao's prodigious English-language debut, feature multilayered voices revealing intricate perspectives that result in gloriously gratifying rewards. Booker Prize finalist Madeleine Thien introduces Shuang's enigmatic work, contextualizing his fiction, which "teeter[s] on a fulcrum between past and future," between...