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Hunter

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A provincial ambulance drives through the night in search of a hospital, a fifth-rate actor goes method as a hitman on a sweltering rooftop, a legendary knife fighter is found working on the factory floor of a northern village. Hunter's stories of deceptive, brutal realism play... Read More
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From the Granta Magazine Editions series: these gritty, surreal stories by one of the most highly-celebrated young Chinese writers reveal new and striking visions of life in China today.

From the Granta Magazine Editions series: A collection of gritty, surreal short stories that offer new visions of life in China today.

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A provincial ambulance drives through the night in search of a hospital, a fifth-rate actor goes method as a hitman on a sweltering rooftop, a legendary knife fighter is found working on the factory floor of a northern village. Hunter's stories of deceptive, brutal realism play with myth and history, offering sketches of ordinary life that take a magic realist turn.

Filled with dark humour and written with a tinge of noir, these stories grapple with the realities of life in contemporary China.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781738536245

Publisher: Granta Publications Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 June 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Granta Magazine Editions

Contributors:

  • Translated by Jeremy Tiang

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 288

About the Author

Shuang Xuetao has written seven volumes of fiction, for which he has won the Blossoms Literary Prize, the Wang Zengqi Short Story Prize, and the Blancpain-Imaginist Award for the best Chinese writer under forty-five. His short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Astra Magazine and Brick, and a collection of three novellas, Rouge Street, was published in English in 2022. His work has been adapted for both television and film. He lives in Beijing.

Jeremy Tiang is a novelist, playwright and literary translator. He has translated over thirty books from across the Chinese-speaking world, including novels by Yeng Pway Ngon, Yan Ge, Lo Yi-Chin, Liu Xinwu and Zhang Yueran. Most recently, his translation of Zou Jingzhi's Ninth Building was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023. He has been a translator-in-residence at Princeton University and the University of Iowa, and chaired the jury for the National Book Award in Translated Literature.

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