My South Seas Sleeping Beauty: A Tale of Memory and Longing

Zhang Guixing

April, 2007
Cloth, 216 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14058-4
$25.50 / £17.50

"My South Seas Sleeping Beauty is an alternating narrative of life in and around the jungles of Malaysia, a mixture of fantasy and exoticism (the good kind), and of university life in Taiwan. It is a highly descriptive, occasionally erotic, and often gripping novel that will be simultaneously accessible and unfamiliar to Western readers—and the translation is first-rate." — Howard Goldblatt, The University of Notre Dame

"From the tropical rainforests of Malaysia to the urban jungles of Taipei, My South Seas Sleeping Beauty is a fantastic literary journey through the labyrinth of memory and the perils of the past. Chinese-Malay writer Zhang Guixing has long been opening up new vistas in Chinese-language fiction and now, thanks to Valerie Jaffee's skillful translation, announces himself as a powerful new voice in world literature." — Michael Berry, author of Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature
• East Asian Studies

Series

• Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan

About the Author

Zhang Guixing is a Malaysian-Chinese author best known for a series of epic novels set in Borneo: Siren Song, The Clown Dynasty, Herds of Elephants, and The Primate Cup. His work has been the subject of extensive academic and popular discussion in Taiwan, where he continues to live and work as a high school English teacher. Valerie Jaffee is a translator with degrees from Harvard and Columbia University.

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