摘要
Su Tong’s latest translated collection offers English-speaking readers a window into one of China’s best-known modern writers《群众来信》小说集:苏童笔下的人性与宿命Su Tong’s works are not for the fainthearted.In the first tale of Missives from the Masses,a newly translated collection of 11 short stories from across the writer’s 40-year career,the protagonist goes into surgery knowing she will die from it.In another,an elderly zookeeper is forced to kill his animals for a biology teacher who helped get his grandchild into school.