Chinese writer's English book back in translation
Renowned Chinese writer Yan Geling's first English novel, The Banquet Bug, returns to the author's motherland in simplified Chinese, and is creating quite a buzz among her fans. It has made it to bestseller lists online as well as at bookstores.
"The translation by Taiwanese professor John Chiang-sheng Kuo is longer than I expected," Yan says. "I didn't translate it myself because I do not like to repeat myself."
Yan says every novel that she has written, especially after moving to the United States in 1989, adopts a different approach. She earned her Master's degree in fiction writing from Columbia College, Chicago, and shot to fame with The Lost Daughter of Happiness and Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl, and their film adaptations. She currently lives in Berlin with her American diplomat husband.
