![]() The Sorrows of Others is a pristine and lovingly carved jewel box of a collection, set in China and America in the post-Cultural Revolution decades. okay, sure.īut it was all true in fact, I came to the end of Sorrows feeling the book had not been praised enough. I was a thirsty traveler in the desert when I was sent Ada Zhang’s short story collection, The Sorrows of Others. Maybe you, privately or not, feel this way too. So much contemporary literary fiction! The vast majority of it competent, a lot of it quite good, so little of it truly beautiful or memorable or alive. Specifically, I am curmudgeonly regarding the matter of actually great fiction. ![]() Though I try to be generous in most areas of my life, in some of the quieter recesses of my heart I indulge the joys of being a hater. ![]()
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