This House of Sky, Ivan Doig: For the Sibling Book Group. It reminds me a little of All the Strange Hours, tho' much more conventional in structure. Well-written. I enjoyed it.
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories, Lu Xun: 400 pages of short stories from an early modern (written 1905-1925) Chinese author. Pretty interesting. More allusive and less plot-driven than most Western stories, which I gather is a feature of Eastern storytelling (at least Chinese and Japanese). Ah Q, the Real Story was the best, I thought, largely because the deliberately folksy tone came through so well. The translator's notes make it abundantly clear that translating even modern vernacular Chinese into English must be mind-bendingly difficult. Working with ideograms must just be a whole different ball of wax.
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