A ten-year long odyssey comes to an end with the publication of Su Wei’s The Invisible Valley! Editor Gavin Grant announces the news on the Small Beer Press website, where you can order a copy.
April 2018: Su Wei 苏炜 : Writing Chinese
Su Wei is April’s Author of the Month for the University of Leeds’ Writing Chinese project.
Su and Woerner at the Macau Literary Festival
The Script Road Literary Festival in Macau is stop two on the Su-Woerner book tour. Watch a video clip here.
The Invisible Valley debuts at the Shanghai Literary Festival
Su Wei and Austin Woerner share their stories at the world premiere of The Invisible Valley at the 2018 M Literary Festival in Shanghai. Read a description of the event here.
Invisible Valley, by Su Wei | Booklist Online
“The truth slowly reveals itself in [Su] Wei’s lushly atmospheric and haunting novel.” –Jennifer Rothschild on The Invisible Valley
Amy Lantrip reviews The Invisible Valley for World Literature Today
“The characters are full of nuance and contradiction, each keeping their own secrets.” Amy Lantrip reviews The Invisible Valley for World Literature Today.
Fiction Book Review: The Invisible Valley by Su Wei, trans. from the Chinese by Austin Woerner.
“Mystical and menacing… a window to an unusual moment in his nation’s history.”
THE INVISIBLE VALLEY by Wei Su , Austin Woerner | Kirkus Reviews
“This unique adventure of youth, identity, and the natural world intoxicates with overlapping mysteries.”
Su Wei’s Invisible Valley due out in April 2018
Big news! Small Beer Press, run by Pulitzer-winning fantasy author Kelly Link and her husband Gavin Grant, will be publishing my translation of The Invisible Valley, a fantastical epic tale set during the Cultural Revolution, by the novelist Su Wei.
Click here and here to learn more about the book – and to preorder it!