Strange Beasts of China

Ge, Yan NEW title Luminous and beguiling... Yan is a deft and engaging storyteller, with a proclivity for dramatic revelations... Yan's rare versatility and inventiveness keeps the narrative continuously surprising. ... Strange Beasts transfixes you like a vivid dream, offering glimpses of the waking world contorted into uncanny forms. -- The Washington Post Magical realism of the best kind, where the spectacular is paired with just enough irony and daffy humor to keep it grounded on earth--or whichever world this fun and beguiling book takes place. -- Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal Delightful. Through the narrator's futile quest to catalog beasts, Yan captures the fluidness of city life, the way urban space defies definition even for people hellbent on making sense of it. --The New York Times A page-turner whose dense, fantastical atmosphere lingers long after the read. --Vulture Strange Beasts of China feels like a riddle and a parable and a dream, the kind of book you want to ge