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Snow and Shadow
2022
First Published
3.72
Average Rating
212
Number of Pages
Dorothy Tse's stories sometimes start in a vein of innocent realism, but she invariably brings us up short with an abrupt twist: dreamscapes descend and the pages become populated with ever weirder characters. Not only do strange things happen, they are juxtaposed in ways that confound all logical expectations. This collection of 13 short stories is not for the faint-hearted—violent and sensual elements abound and limbs, even heads, are lopped off with alarming regularity. Yet scenes are sometimes so outrageous that they make us laugh, and Dorothy's bold thematic and narrative experiments yield results that are alternately beguiling and deeply disturbing.
Avg Rating
3.72
Number of Ratings
72
5 STARS
28%
4 STARS
32%
3 STARS
29%
2 STARS
7%
1 STARS
4%
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Author

Dorothy Tse
Dorothy Tse
Author · 3 books

Dorothy Tse Hiu-hung (謝曉虹) is the author of four short story collections in Chinese, including So Black (《好黑》, 2005) and A Dictionary of Two Cities (《雙城辭典》, 2013). Translations of her short fiction have appeared in The Guardian, Paper Republic, The Margins (AAWW) and Anomaly. Her English-language collection Snow and Shadow (2014, trans. Nicky Harman), was longlisted for the University of Rochester’s 2015 Best Translated Book Award, and collects short stories from her earlier Chinese books as well as previously unpublished works. A recipient of the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature and Taiwan’s Unitas New Fiction Writers’ Award, Tse also attended The University of Iowa's International Writing Program in 2011. She is a co-founder of the Hong Kong literary magazine Fleurs des lettres, and currently teaches literature and writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. 一九七七年生。 似乎一直在香港生活,但其實只是在有限的幾條街道上重複地走來走去,與固定的朋友互通消息,以及看各種虛幻的新聞。九七年開始寫作,作品收入大陸、台灣及香港等地之小說及散文選集,於○三年出版《好黑》(香港,青文)。

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