{"product_id":"elsewhere-stories-9781982198480","title":"Elsewhere: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom multi-award-winning author Yan Ge, a shimmering, genre-bending English-language debut that announces the next phase in a major literary career.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A bewitching collection of stories that will leave you awestruck, shaken, and wanting to reach for it again and again.\" --Paul Yoon, author of \u003ci\u003eRun Me to Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn twenty years, Yan Ge has authored thirteen books written in Chinese, working across an impressive range of genres and subjects. Now, Yan Ge transposes her dynamic storytelling onto another linguistic landscape. The result is a collection humming with her trademark wit and style--and with the electricity of a seasoned artist flexing her virtuosity with a new medium. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA young woman bonds with an encampment of poets after a devastating earthquake. Against her better judgment, a college student begins to fall for an acquaintance who might be dead. And a Confucian disciple returns to the Master bearing a jar full of grisly remains. Weaving between reality and dreamy surreality, these nine stories wend toward \u003ci\u003eelsewhere\u003c\/i\u003e, a comforting, frustrating, just-out-of-reach place familiar to anyone who has ever experienced longing. Through it all Yan Ge's protagonists peer thoughtfully at their own feelings of displacement--physical or emotional, the result of travel, emigration, or exile. Brilliant and irresistibly readable, \u003ci\u003eElsewhere \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the utility (or not) of art in the face of lonesomeness, quotidian, and spectacular. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis highly anticipated collection is further proof that Yan Ge is a generational literary talent, to be watched closely for decades to come.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/11\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781982198480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/08\/2023\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yan Ge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42870638674101,"sku":"9781982198480","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_864a978f-370a-4fd7-829f-0bcb86ca5545.jpg?v=1684271240","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/elsewhere-stories-9781982198480","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}