Madwoman On the Bridge and Other Stories (24 page)

Born in 1963 in Suzhou and now living in Nanjing with his family, Su Tong is one of China’s most celebrated bestselling authors, shooting to international fame in 1993 when Zhang Yimou’s film of his novella
Raise the Red Lantern
was nominated for an Oscar.
Madwoman on the Bridge
is his first collection of short stories to be published in English. It is to be followed by his latest novel,
Check
, a violent drama set in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, to be published by Doubleday in 2009.

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MADWOMAN ON THE BRIDGE
A BLACK SWAN BOOK ISBN: 9780552774529
Version 1.0 Epub ISBN: 9780753516690

First publication in Great Britain
Black Swan edition published 2008

Copyright © Su Tong 2008
English translation copyright © Josh Stenberg 2008

Su Tong has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.

An earlier version of the translation of ‘How the Ceremony Ends’ by Josh Stenberg first appeared in the Kyoto Journal #63, 2006.

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