The Invisible Valley Comes to You

Thu 14 Jun 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Posted by: Gavin

Good news for Bostonians, Texans, New Yorkers, and Seattle-ites: Austin Woerner will be visiting the USA this summer from China and will be doing events to celebrate the publication of his translation of Su Wei’s first novel to be translated into English, The Invisible Valley.

And, for the event at the Brookline Booksmith Austin will be joined by the author himself, Su Wei.

Here are the dates:

June 28, 7 p.m. Deep Vellum Books, Dallas, TX

June 30, 7 p.m. Malvern Books, Austin, TX (Facebook)

July 12, 7 p.m. Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA (with Su Wei)

July 25, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, NYC

July 28 at 7 p.m. Elliot Bay Books, Seattle, WA

John Crowley, author of Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, said:

“Su Wei’s The Invisible Valley is a remarkable work, pungent, funny, and mind-widening. Austin Woerner’s translation is nearly invisible: it erases all barriers of strangeness and places the reader deep within a Chinese experience that comes to seem as familiar to us as our own daily round — if ours too had ghost brides and very big snakes.”

Amy Lantrip in World Literature Today: “The Invisible Valley takes the reader along a journey full of mystery, magic, and political intrigue. The characters are full of nuance and contradiction, each keeping their own secrets. As each secret is revealed, the reader comes closer to understanding the larger picture. Combined with the balance between the natural and supernatural, this makes the novel interesting for any reader.”

Rachel S. Cordasco in SF in Translation: “In The Invisible Valley, Su Wei asks us to broaden our definition of reality, as Lu does, in order to better understand the peoples and landscapes around us.”

There are so many books! Which one is this? Read an excerpt.