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  About the Author

  Yan Ge was born in Sichuan in the People’s Republic of China. She recently completed a PhD in comparative literature at Sichuan University, and is the chairperson of the China Young Writer Association. Her early work focused on the wonders, gods and ghosts of Chinese myth and made her especially popular with teenagers. The novel May Queen (2008) saw her break through as a critically acclaimed author. She now writes realist fiction, strongly Sichuan-based, focusing with warmth, humour and razor-sharp insights on squabbling families and small-town life. People’s Literature magazine recently chose her as one of China’s twenty future literary masters, and in 2012 she was chosen as Best New Writer by the prestigious Chinese Literature Media Prize.

  By the same author

  Fiction

  The Family of Joy

  The Symphony of Sound

  Tale of Nine Monsters

  The Guan River

  May Queen

  Short stories

  Spring in Tao Le

  Moments of Bliss

  Buried in Seventeen Months

  Lantana of Marmora

  Essay

  The observer of clouds

  First published as an e-book in 2014

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  © Yan Ge 2014

  Translation form the Chinese © Nicky Harman

  Cover image © Kelsey Parks

  The right of Yan Ge to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

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