Su Tong’s new translated collection offers English-speaking readers a window into one of China’s best-known modern writers
Su Tong’s works are not for the faint-hearted. In the first tale of Missives from the Masses, a newly translated collection of 11 short stories from across the writer’s 40-year career, the protagonist goes into surgery knowing she will die from it. In another, an elderly zookeeper is forced to kill his animals for a biology teacher who helped get his grandchild into school.
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