Jeremy Tiang Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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- novelist (STATE OF EMERGENCY, Singapore Literature Prize) - Sinophone literary translator - playwright (https://t.co/CudXdW2J9O) - he/they 🏳️🌈
The Books of Jacob
Olga TokarczukJeremy TiangThe Books of Jacob! Scattered All Over the Earth! congratulations Olga Tokarczuk @jenniferlcroft Yoko Tawada Margaret Mitsutani https://t.co/jzinSi8Mav
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fires on the Plain
Shohei OokaJeremy Tiangthe New York Asian Film Festival includes Fire on the Plain 平原上的火焰 (dir. Zhang Ji 张骥) -- based on Moses on the Plain 平原上的摩西 by Shuang Xuetao 双雪涛, recently published in Rouge Street: Three Novellas film: https://www.filmlinc.org/films/fire-on-the-plain/ book: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250835871/rougestreet https://t.co/hHlIr7hNFh
Paperback, 1989
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Wedding Party
Liu XinwuJeremy TiangShuang Xuetao's ROUGE STREET *and* Liu Xinwu's THE WEDDING PARTY are both on the @NewYorker's Best Books of 2022 So Far (I like that "so far," reminding us we will all be supplanted soon enough) https://t.co/4iNcMZIMYM
Paperback, 2021
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Strange Beasts of China
Yan GeJeremy TiangThank you @Mondyboy for this review of @YanGeMay's Strange Beasts of China! "A wildly imaginative and socially conscious novel that’s well worth your time" that also has "a phenomenal amount of vomiting" https://locusmag.com/2021/09/ian-mond-reviews-strange-beasts-of-china-by-yan-ge/
Paperback, 2022
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hurricane Season
Fernanda MelchorJeremy Tiangexcellent to see a review engaging with the relation of translation to source (from Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s New Yorker review of Fernanda Melchor’s Hurricane Season and Paradais, tr. Sophie Hughes) https://t.co/Tr8s7zHbkX
Paperback, 2020
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beijing Sprawl
Zechen XuJeremy Tiangcoming your way next year -- BEIJING SPRAWL by Xu Zechen 徐则臣 https://t.co/MBwbs7wYEy
Paperback, 2023
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Life Ceremony: Stories
Sayaka MurataJeremy TiangI’m reading Sayaka Murata’s Life Ceremony (tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori), and if you enjoyed Earthlings but thought it didn’t have enough cannibalism, hoo boy have I got a book rec for you https://t.co/TdLq2rWq7r
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
We Had to Remove This Post
Hanna BervoetsJeremy TiangThe Guardian: men should read more by women Me: yes Ian McEwan: specifically men should read We Had To Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets, tr. @emmarault Me: YESSSSS https://t.co/Se6ZfdcCxE
Paperback, 2023
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Vegetarian
Han KangJeremy Tiang"It took a little longer than a book in English might to deliver into production, but I think translations should take longer." this is fascinating -- @maxjohnporter on The Vegetarian's journey to publication in English https://t.co/ZiYIwtHC7L
Paperback, 2016
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Secret Talker
Geling YanJeremy Tiangpub day always feels like sending a child off to school for the first time (then immediately pouring a glass of wine?) anyway The Secret Talker 密语者 by Yan Geling 严歌苓 is now out in the world https://t.co/kjSnI4KAAM
Paperback, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book