{"product_id":"yan-ge-elsewhere-2024-paperback","title":"Yan Ge: Elsewhere [2024] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Full of depth. . . wonderful writing.' \u003c\/b\u003eSARAH HALL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Dazzlingly good. . . crackling with playfulness and intelligence.'\u003c\/b\u003e DANIELLE McLAUGHLIN \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Precise, surreal and emotionally devastating' \u003c\/b\u003eLUCY CALDWELL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'How do you know this is all real and happening? How can you be sure you haven't already died in the earthquake and are just living in the afterlife?'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her highly anticipated English-language debut, Yan Ge explores isolation in nine iridescent, witty and wondrous tales. Both contemporary and ancient, real and surreal, the stories in \u003ci\u003eElsewhere\u003c\/i\u003e range from China to Dublin to London and Stockholm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom a group of writers lounging on the edge of a disaster zone to a mandarin ostracised from his old court trying to avoid assassination, and from a woman who inexplicably loses her voice to a couple who meet all too fleetingly at a cinema in Dublin, these are strange and beguiling stories of dispossession, longing and the diasporic experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Glorious' \u003c\/b\u003eMIA GALLAGHER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A gripping, stunning work, worldly and otherworldly.' \u003c\/b\u003eMADELEINE THIEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Equal parts shimmering wit and startling emotional depth.'\u003c\/b\u003e JEREMY TIAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the most surprising writers I've read in recent years. . . fantastic.' \u003c\/b\u003eMATT BELL\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ge, Yan","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48850275336531,"sku":"9780571373123","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/ge-yan-yan-ge-elsewhere-2024-paperback-9780571373123-60120243962195.jpg?v=1732088651","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/yan-ge-elsewhere-2024-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}