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Strange Beasts of China

by Yan Ge

Narrator Emily Woo Zeller

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Translator Jeremy Tiang

Length 7 hours 56 minutes

Language English

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Summary
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In the fictional Chinese city of Yong’an, an amateur cryptozoologist is commissioned to uncover the stories of its fabled beasts. These creatures live alongside humans in near-inconspicuousness—save their greenish skin, serrated earlobes, and strange birthmarks. Aided by her elusive former professor and his enigmatic assistant, our narrator sets off to document each beast and is slowly drawn deeper into a mystery that threatens her very sense of self. Part detective story, part metaphysical enquiry, Strange Beasts of China engages existential questions of identity, humanity, love, and morality with whimsy and stylistic verve.

Fiction Fantasy Fiction - Literary

Yan Ge is the author of thirteen books, including six novels. Writing in both Chinese and English, she has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Maodun Literature Prize (Best Young Writer), and was named by People's Literature magazine as one of twenty future literature masters in China. Her work has been translated into English, French, and German, among other languages.

Emily Woo Zeller is an Earphones award-winning audiobook narrator. After beginning her voiceover career with Asian animation, she returned to the United States and began narrating a broad spectrum of audiobook genres. Her multilingual, multicultural framework brings a particularly unique, clear-eyed, and intimate perspective to the Asian American narratives she specializes in.

Jeremy Tiang is a Singaporean writer, translator, and playwright based in New York City. He has translated more than ten books from Chinese and was recently honored as the London Book Fair's inaugural Translator in Residence.