The Wild LandJia Pingwa is one of the best known and most prolific novelists in contemporary China. The Wild Land brings together a collection of his most celebrated prose essays, each in their first English translation. Delving deep into his diverse preoccupations fate, art, religion and interpersonal relationships this richly rewarding anthology gives a fascinating insight into the mind of one of modern Chinese literatures most revered sons.

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MPT’s spring issue features a focus on Caribbean poetry

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Faces with Twisted Tongues (1998) and The Cardplayer’s Morning (2008)

and seeks to be a work that deepens and complicates the engagement with Welsh working class histories and family myths

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part fictionalised diary

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has won several awards

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She was also director of the Cleveland Poetry Centre and associate professor at Cleveland State University