\nby Lu Yang (year)<\/span>
\ntranslated from the Chinese by Eric Abrahamsen, with assistance from the Nanjing Youth Literary Talent Project<\/em><\/span>
\nfrom the June 4 & 11, 2018 issue of\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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I do not know the work of Lu Yang, so his interview with Deborah Treisman is particularly helpful. He was on the forefront of the Chinese avant-garde writers in the 1990s, after which he practically stopped publishing. He says he’s writing again, perhaps as a result of translating Hemingway’s\u00a0The Old Man and the Sea<\/em> recently.<\/p>\n “Silver Tiger” takes us back to his earlier period, though, as it was originally written in 1992. Here’s how it begins:<\/p>\n I lived with my deaf granny from a very young age and was sent to be with my mother and my father only on feast days and for memorials. Behind Granny\u2019s house was a deep well pond, and it was in that well pond that I first saw the silver tiger. Much of what I\u2019m going to tell you is inextricably bound up with that silver tiger. 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[fusion_dropcap boxed=”no” boxed_radius=”” class=”” id=”” color=”#003366″]T[\/fusion_dropcap]he 2018 Fiction Issue of\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em> is out, featuring stories by Lu Yang, Karen Russell (see here<\/a>), and David Gilbert (see here<\/a>).<\/p>\n