Delicious hunger

Author

Fan Hai

Call Number

• FICTION HAI (CEN, OSH)

Publication Information

Sheffield : Tilted Axis Press, [2024]

Physical Description

266 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Summary

"Struggling through an arduous trek, two comrades pine for each other but don't know how to declare their love; a woman who has annoyed all her comrades finally wins their approval when she finds a mythical mousedeer; improvising around the lack of ingredients, a perpetually hungry guerrilla makes delicious cakes from cassava and elephant fat. The rainforest may be a dangerous place where death awaits, but so do love, desire and hope. Delicious Hunger is a book about the moments in and between warfare, when hunger is so palpable it can be tasted, and the natural world becomes an extension of the body. Deftly translated from Mandarin by Jeremy Tiang, Hai Fan's stories are about a group of people who chose to fight for a better world and, in the process, built their own." --

Notes

Translated from Chinese.

Contents

• Translator's note / Jeremy Tiang
• Editor's note: a rainforest of invisible silence / Tice Cin
• Mysterious night
• In the line of work
• Hillside rain
• Magic ears
• Prey
• Spell
• Wild mangoes
• Swansong in that faraway place
• Cherry-red ivory
• Buried rations
• Delicious hunger
• Glossary
• Author's note: an encounter with myself
• Afterword: dead pigs, buried rations, yesterday's people / Li Zi Shu.