How Old Dan Became a Tree Tom Hadway as these bold and generous

as these bold and generous poems interweave bigger questions of place

Notes from a Jazz Life

Rachid Boudjedra

“His poems are charged with a thoroughly contemporary and a profoundly literary awareness of what it means to be Irish

in which anxieties and griefs flit and hover

How Old Dan Became a Tree Tom Hadway as these bold and generousIn 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.