Rouge Street: Three Novellas (Audiobook)
English | April 19, 2022 | ASIN: B09JYBNP7S | M4B@64 kbps | 6h 30m | 181 MB
Author: Shuang Xuetao | Narrator: Brian Nishii | Translator: Jeremy Tiang
Already compared to Hemingway and Murakami, Shuang Xuetao is one of the most highly celebrated young Chinese writers-his English-language debut collects three dazzling novellas of Northeast China, mixing realism, mysticism, and noir. An enterprising inventor dreams of escaping his drab surroundings in a flying machine. A criminal, trapped beneath a frozen lake, transforms into a giant fish. A strange girl pledges to ignite a field of sorghum stalks.
Rouge Street collects three novellas by Shuang Xuetao, the lauded young Chinese writer whose frank, fantastical short fiction has already inspired comparisons to Ernest Hemingway and Haruki Murakami. Located in China's frigid Northeast, Shenyang, the author's birthplace, boasts an illustrious past-legend holds that the emperor's makeup was manufactured here. But while the city enjoyed renewed importance as an industrial hub under Mao Zedong, China's subsequent transition from communism to a private economy led to an array of social ills-unemployment, poverty, alcoholism, domestic violence, divorce, suicide-which gritty Shenyang epitomizes.