Mutual Strangers Chris Emery

Mutual Strangers Chris EmeryCollecting two decades of remembrances from Chinas premier literary caricaturist, these short stories offer bite sized misdeeds committed by Nanjings underground literati. Freed from family duties, the boys spend their nights freewheeling and trying their luck with pretty girls amid a haze of cigarette smoke and cheap beer. However, as the evening drags on, trouble brews and dates turn sour. Their only real solace is an unspoken camaraderie. After the

with witty and wicked results

each poem begins with a cocktail recipe

the book shines a spotlight on this missing heritage

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Her previous young adult books have won the North East Book Award

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many people fell prey to fraudsters who invited them to invest in so-called ‘pyramid schemes’

between desire and art

scriptwriter – and a poet

brewing and biscuit making

Great Fugue is Volker Braun’s most recent collection

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