Book Talk | Night Train, Translated by Jeremy Tiang

More copies will be available for sale tonight. See yu soon! 

ABOUT THE BOOK

A new novel from a major Chinese author. Follows characters who live on the precipice, where the foolish mistakes of young men can have devastating consequences.

"Xu Zechen's tales of Beijing and the lives on its margins have a relationship to that city much like the one Irvine Welsh's fiction has to Edinburgh-writing that's at once an evocation and a demystification of the city where it's set." -Tobias Carroll, Words Without Borders.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jeremy Tiang is a novelist, playwright, and International Booker Prize–longlisted literary translator. Tiang 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.

IN CONVERSATION WITH

YZ Chin is the author of Edge Case and Though I Get Home. Edge Case is a New York Times Editors' Choice and an NPR Books We Love pick. Though I Get Home won the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize and the Asian/Pacific American Award For Literature honor title. YZ Chin is also a translator of Mahua literature. Her translation of Teng Kuan Kiat's Smalltown Godzilla is forthcoming from Ecco next year. Her work has been supported by NEA and MacDowell fellowships. Born and raised in Taiping, Malaysia, she now lives in New York.