Granta #169
148 x 210 mm, 336 pages
London, UK
Editor: Thomas Meaney
Senior designer: Daniela Silva
Publisher: Sigrid Rausing
From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each themed issue of Granta turns the attention of the world’s best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now.
Split into six sections: Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography, interview and Dongbei renaissance, this issue is themed 'China'. Issue #169 offers a critical insight into Chinese literary culture and the writers from there who bring a distinct writing style that Granta describes as not only intertwined with China's political history, but also playful and surreal. What's interesting about this issue is the translation of the literature included from the Chinese language to English, by Paper Language and translators such as Jeremy Tiang; this in itself being a learning point of the unique use of structural techniques within Chinese fiction.