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In just 12 stories, Wang manages to whip up the portrait of a generation. Whether describing “fuerdai” boys who’ve been sent to the US to study only to return home in disgrace or “Bei Piao – a term coined to describe the twentysomethings who drift aimlessly to the northern capital”, she jumps from one person’s story to another breathing life into their characters and complexities.
Remember the name Julia Armfield as this will be the year thatbubbles under then pops up everywhere on best-of lists and literary prizes. Winner of the 2018 White Review Short Story Prize Winner forin which whole cities come down with insomnia , this short story collection expands on Armfield’s ability to meld the psychological with the physical. Read just one tale from this disturbing collection and you’ll find yourself clamped between the collection’s jaws.
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