Volume 8: Short Stories - The Complete Works of Wang Xiaobo

Author: Wang Xiaobo
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: The Complete Works of Wang Xiaobo is divided into ten volumes, each published in both paperback and hardcover collector's editions. Volume 1 and Volume 2 are essays; Volume 3, Volume 4, and Volume 5 are long novels and plays; Volume 6 and Volume 7 are short novels; Volume 8 is short stories; Volume 9 is letters; and Volume 10 is unfinished works. This book is Volume 8. Wang Xiaobo is currently China's most creative writer, hailed as China's Joyce and Kafka, and is the only mainland Chinese writer to have won the prestigious "United Daily News Literature Award for Short Fiction" twice. His literary creations are unique, rich in imagination and fantasy, yet not devoid of rationality. His writing is both transparent and obscure, both straightforward and cunning. The labyrinthine text can make you think of Borges—he circles around like a taxi driver, even more taxi-driver-like. In short, you can read infinite possibilities or impossibilities, infinite certainty or uncertainty. The Complete Works of Wang Xiaobo is divided into ten volumes, collecting the important works of Wang Xiaobo during his lifetime, with a significant portion of them being newly organized thoughts. The entire set is divided into essays, long novels, short novels, short stories, letter collections, and unfinished works, totaling approximately 2 million words. This book is Volume 8, featuring the short stories originally included in The Iron Age.