Strange Beasts of China
( Chinese - Yi Shou Zhi ( 异兽志 ) - 2006 )
novel by Yan Ge
translated by Jeremy Tiang
Published: Melville House - hardback - 2021
ISBN: 1612199097 / 9781612199092
Titled Axis - paperback - 2021
ISBN: 1911284444 / 9781911284444
Melville House - e-book - 2021
eISBN: 1612199100 / 9781612199108
Dreamscape Media - audiobook ( CD ) - 2021
ISBN: 1666517127 / 9781666517125
Dreamscape Media - audiobook ( MP3 CD ) - 2021
ISBN: 1666517380 / 9781666517385
Dreamscape Media - audiobook ( digital download ) - 2021
ISBN: 1666517208 / 9781666517200
synopsis
In the city of Yong’an, an amateur cryptozoologist is commissioned to uncover the stories of its fabled beasts. These creature, with their greenish stomachs or gills or strange birthmark. live alongside humans in near-inconspicuousness, some with ancient forbears, others engineered as artificial breeds.
Guided or, often, misguided, by her elusive university professor and his scrappy student sidekick Zhong Liang, our narrator finds herself on a mission to track down each species. And as she blunders from one implausible situation to the next, she comes one step closer to revealing her own inner beast…
Part detective story, part metaphysical enquiry, Strange Beasts addresses existential questions of identity, being, love and morality with whimsy and grace.
awards
PEN Translates award, autumn 2018
Shortlisted for the 2021 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
( Chinese - Yi Shou Zhi ( 异兽志 ) - 2006 )
novel by Yan Ge
translated by Jeremy Tiang
Published: Melville House - hardback - 2021
ISBN: 1612199097 / 9781612199092
Titled Axis - paperback - 2021
ISBN: 1911284444 / 9781911284444
Melville House - e-book - 2021
eISBN: 1612199100 / 9781612199108
Dreamscape Media - audiobook ( CD ) - 2021
ISBN: 1666517127 / 9781666517125
Dreamscape Media - audiobook ( MP3 CD ) - 2021
ISBN: 1666517380 / 9781666517385
Dreamscape Media - audiobook ( digital download ) - 2021
ISBN: 1666517208 / 9781666517200
synopsis
In the city of Yong’an, an amateur cryptozoologist is commissioned to uncover the stories of its fabled beasts. These creature, with their greenish stomachs or gills or strange birthmark. live alongside humans in near-inconspicuousness, some with ancient forbears, others engineered as artificial breeds.
Guided or, often, misguided, by her elusive university professor and his scrappy student sidekick Zhong Liang, our narrator finds herself on a mission to track down each species. And as she blunders from one implausible situation to the next, she comes one step closer to revealing her own inner beast…
Part detective story, part metaphysical enquiry, Strange Beasts addresses existential questions of identity, being, love and morality with whimsy and grace.
awards
PEN Translates award, autumn 2018
Shortlisted for the 2021 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation