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Elsewhere: Stories

Elsewhere: Stories

Ge, Yan

Hardcover

General FictionLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 1982198486
ISBN13: 9781982198480
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: Jul 11 2023
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
Longlisted for THE STORY PRIZE A New Yorker BEST BOOK of 2023 MOST ANTICIPATED by Nylon - Rolling Stone - The Millions

From multi-award-winning author Yan Ge, a shimmering, genre-bending English-language debut that announces the next phase in a major literary career.

As haunting, dreamlike, and addictive as a melatonin-induced slumber. --Nylon

Deft... Elsewhere [explores] the power of language across the Chinese diaspora to either bring people together or push them apart.--The New York Times

In twenty years, Yan Ge has authored thirteen books written in Chinese, working across an impressive range of genres and subjects. Now, Yan Ge transposes her dynamic storytelling onto another linguistic landscape. The result is a collection humming with her trademark wit and style--and with the electricity of a seasoned artist flexing her virtuosity with a new medium.

A young woman bonds with an encampment of poets after a devastating earthquake. Against her better judgment, a college student begins to fall for an acquaintance who might be dead. And a Confucian disciple returns to the Master bearing a jar full of grisly remains. Weaving between reality and dreamy surreality, these nine stories wend toward elsewhere, a comforting, frustrating, just-out-of-reach place familiar to anyone who has ever experienced longing. Through it all Yan Ge's protagonists peer thoughtfully at their own feelings of displacement--physical or emotional, the result of travel, emigration, or exile. Brilliant and irresistibly readable, Elsewhere explores the utility (or not) of art in the face of lonesomeness, quotidian, and spectacular.

This highly anticipated collection is further proof that Yan Ge is a generational literary talent, to be watched closely for decades to come.

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