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White Horse
Yan Ge
(Translated by Nicky Harman)
Shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
Category: Fiction | Young Adult | Fantasy
ABOUT THE BOOK
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
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
YAN GE
was born in Sichuan in the People’s Republic of China. She is the chairperson of the China Young Writers Association. People’s Literature magazine choose her as one of China’s twenty future literary masters, and she was picked as Best New Writer by the prestigious Chinese Literature Media Prize. Her other novel, The Chilli Bean Paste Clan, was published in 2018. Yan Ge lives in Norwich with her husband and son.
REVIEWS
‘Something really different, fresh and original. White Horse by Yan Ge is a gorgeous book that underpins a sharply psychologically-driven story with the most wonderful Chinese brush art. This is mesmerising stuff, filled with a sharply dark wit at times, and at others filled with angst and frustration that many contemporary teens will fully identify with. Masterfully written, this - and just look at the illustrations!’
ReadItDaddy
‘This is a powerful coming of age tale, with piercing insights into contemporary Chinese culture.’
Books Go Walkabout
‘A fascinating tale of receptive hearts, rebellious spirits and hidden secrets infused with cultural values in this small Chinese community.’
Dunia Magazine
‘White Horse is tender - observing, as it were, the complicated, irredeemable world of grown-ups from a distance.’
Chitralekha Daily
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‘Wow, another complete corker from @hoperoadpublish with the most amazing chinese brush art throughout, and a story that many tweens / teens will wholly identify with despite its setting. Superb stuff from Yan Ge.’
New China Daily
‘Yan's writing has pioneering characteristics of the writers born in the 1980s. Yan, sensitive to language and structure, stands out.’
He Ping, Associate Professor from the College of Literature, Nanjing Normal University
‘A talented writer.’
The Irish Times
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