White Horse, Paperback

This compact novella contains a gripping psychological tale, enlivened by wickedly sharp insights into contemporary small-town life in China.

Yun Yun lives in a small West China town with her widowed father and an uncle, aunt, and older cousin who live nearby. One day, her once-secure world begins to fall apart. Through her eyes, we observe her cousin, Zhang Qing, keen to dive into the excitements of adolescence, but clashing with repressive parents. Ensuing tensions reveal that the relationships between the two families are founded on a terrible lie.

Yan Ge is the chairperson of the China Young Writers Association. People's Literature magazine choose her as one of China's 20 future literary masters, and she was picked as Best New Writer by the prestigious Chinese Literature Media Prize. She is the author of The Chilli Bean Paste Clan. Nicky Harman won the Mao Tai Cup People's Literature Chinese-English translation prize 2015, won first prize in the 2013 China International Translation Contest Chinese-to-English section, and won a PEN Translation Fund Award (2006) for her translation of Banished! by Han Dong. She is co-chair of the Translators' Association of the Society of Authors. She translated The Chilli Bean Paste Clan.