11 Outstanding Chinese Novels in Translation

fascinating book in many ways it feels like it is a book for non-chinese people to read and learn about china it's a darkly funny book and i really do recommend it

it is it is a satire of sorts but it doesn't read as a satire because it's not funny it doesn't feel tongue-in-cheek it just feels like a tragic tale of desperation sorrow and grief in a lot of ways

what i remember about this book is that it is surreal that it has unreliable narrators and fractured narratives it's funny i remember laughing i remember it being a very funny novel

it's one of the most popular chinese novels in translation it's it's really wonderful book

this is just beautiful it is life-affirming it's the best word for it

it's funny in places it's dark in places most importantly it is a journey of imagination

it's a fantastically surreal and fun book and the political allegories at play here are very clear but it's nonetheless an absolutely fun romp beautifully translated and it has some darkly funny moments

maybe i shouldn't have picked this one because i can't remember it very well but i love ian lee so just read her if you like the sound of the vagrants read that just read her

now a lot of people do not like this book this trilogy because it is misogynist as [ __ ] but i am still including it on this list because it is excellent science fiction

basically it's a complete and perfect work of science fiction most science fiction is about something so some social political issues but the good ones are still stories that are worth reading and this is exactly that