{"product_id":"hunter-2","title":"Hunter","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHunter\u003c\/em\u003e's stories of deceptive, brutal realism play with myth and history, offering a vision of ordinary life in China with a magic realist turn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFilled with dark humor and written with a tinge of noir, these fictions grapple with the realities of contemporary China, and show why Shuang Xuetao is the most highly-celebrated young writer working in the country today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGranta Magazine Editions\u003c\/em\u003e is a paperback original series of exceptional literary voices published by \u003cem\u003eGranta \u003c\/em\u003emagazine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShuang Xuetao was born in 1983 in Shenyang. Shuang has written six volumes of fiction, for which he has won the Blossoms Literary Prize, the Wang Zengqi Short Story Prize, and the Blancpain-Imaginist Award for best Chinese writer under forty-five. His short fiction has appeared in the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAstra Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBrick\u003c\/em\u003e, and a novella collection, \u003cem\u003eRouge Street\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in English in 2022. His short stories and novellas have seen major adaptations for television and film.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Translator\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJeremy 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 \u003cem\u003eNinth Building\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 12.9 x 2.01 x 19.81 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Granta","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46763867406493,"sku":"9781738536245","price":99.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/7575\/1837\/files\/hunter_shuang_xuetao_9781738536245.jpg?v=1751425595","url":"https:\/\/mphonline.com\/products\/hunter-2","provider":"MPHOnline.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}