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Format: Paperback, 118 pages. Category: Fiction. ISBN 978-988-18419-7-1
I began to realise that when a girl is looking at the sky, she’s not looking for anything.
She’s just lonely.
Anni Baobei created a sensation when she began to post her stories on a Chinese website. Her strange tales about individuality, loneliness, desire, suicide, sex, death and escape were like nothing the public had seen before.
The Road of Others is made up of three stories linked by their Shanghai setting, their themes, and by their characters. Urgent, romantic and dark, the stories chart the beginning of a literary journey that made Anni Baobei one of the most adored and influential writers of her generation. Translations by Nicky Harman and Keiko Wong.
Anni Baobei
Anni Baobei (the penname of writer Li Jie) is an influential writer whose fiction is celebrated for its romantic, artistic and individualistic characteristics. She was a pioneer of web-based fiction in China. Her first book Goodbye, An was published in 2000 and established her as one of China’s best-selling authors. Anni’s other major works include Lotus (2006) and Spring Banquet (2011). She calls Beijing home, but travel is an important part of her life and her fiction.
Nicky Harman
Nicky Harman lives in the UK. She has worked as a literary translator for a dozen years and, until the spring of 2011, also lectured at Imperial College, London. She led the Chinese-English group at the British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School from 2009 to 2011 and in 2011 was Translator-in-Residence at the London Free Word Centre. Authors she has translated include Zhang Ling (“Gold Mountain Blues”), Yan Geling (“Flowers of War”), Han Dong (“A Phone Call from Dalian: Collected Poems”, and “Banished! A Novel”) Hong Ying (“K-The Art of Love”) and Xinran.
Keiko Wong
Keiko Wong hails from the south of China and is currently living in Beijing. While reading for her computer science major at the Beijing Institute o Technology she discovered that her real passion was for writing and photography. Her English stories have been published on the Make-Do Studios website while other Chinese authors she has translated include Wu Sumei. Keiko’s work can be found at www.imnotblue.com.
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