It’s nice to find your work on the same list as Qian Zhongshu’s Fortress Besieged and Lu Xün’s Real Story of Ah Q. I happily report that Last Quarter of the Moon, my rendition of Chi Zijian’s tragic novel about the twilight of the reindeer-herding Evenki of northeast China, ranks a modest sixth on Time Out Beijing’s “Best Chinese Fiction Books of the Last Century.”
For background on Chi Zijian, the Evenki and the Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Japanese editions of Last Quarter of the Moon, see here.
Also, see Transparent Translator for an interview with Cindy Carter, translator of Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke, which ranked ninth on Time Out’s list.
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