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Author: Angela Qian

Angela Qian is a writer and translator. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Common, Catapult, The Millions, The Toast and other publications.
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The Writer Who Came in from the Cold

October 22, 2018October 25, 2018 Angela Qian

Angela Qian reviews Na Duo’s All the Way to Death

It’s a fascinating premise: a man wakes up on the bank of the Yulong River without any memory of the last five years of his life, then launches a successful career as a suspense writer. In the years since, he hasn’t recovered any of his memories. That is, until now.

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