Geling Yan Literary fiction with roots in China.

Geling Yan: White Snake and Other Stories

Date of Review: 
08/25/1999
Reviewer: 
James Bryant MacTavish
Source: 
City Pages

Review Excerpt:

In Yan's stories it is the small kindness, the brief, tender moment, that surmounts the walls. At these times her characters, no matter how recalcitrant, breathe free, as when Wen Xiu feels the beauty of the herdsman's song: "At times she wished Lao Jin would just die--but not the song. The song should follow her even when she left this place."