How Old Dan Became a Tree Tom Hadway Thomas Hardy and writing in

Thomas Hardy and writing in an adopted language

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How Old Dan Became a Tree Tom Hadway Thomas Hardy and writing inIn this boundary breaking collection of short stories, Yang Zhengguang, the dark horse of contemporary Chinese literature, unflinchingly dissects the passions and sexual mores of the past. By his own admission, he aims to unsettle the reader with black humour and filmic vividness, enticing them into a world where vendettas, humiliation, grave robbing and murder are an integral part of everyday life in a rural Chinese province untethered from reality.