My South Seas Sleeping Beauty: A Tale of Memory and Longing by Zhang Guixing, translated by Valerie Jaffee [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Malaysian, Repost, Southeast Asian, Taiwanese, Translation
Su Qi, a sensitive Chinese Malaysian youth, comes of age in the magical jungles of Borneo, shaped by the cruelty he witnesses at the hands of his abusive father and his loving but withdrawn mother. He...