Running Mother and Other Stories

by Songfen Guo

Guo Songfen's short stories are masterful psychological portraits that play with the echoes of history and the nature of identity. One of the few modernists to truly capture the fallout from such events as the February 28th Incident and the White Terror, Guo Songfen illuminates the quiet core of his characters through a spare and immediate style that is at once a symptom and an allegory of the trauma in which they live.

In "Running Mother,"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231147341
• ISBN13: 9780231147347
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.3"