Death Fugue

About the Author and the Translator

Sheng Keyi was born in Hunan province in China in 1973 and now lives in Beijing. Death Fugue is her sixth and most recent novel, and the second, after Northern Girls, to be published in English translation. She has also written four collections of short stories. Highly regarded in China, her work has been translated into German, Korean, Japanese and Dutch.

Shelly Bryant lives in Singapore and Shanghai, working as a teacher, writer, researcher, and translator. She has translated two previous works of fiction by Sheng Keyi, Northern Girls and Fields of White, for Penguin Books, as well as titles for Epigram Publishing, the National Library Board in Singapore and Rinchen Books. She is the author of six volumes of poetry, and travel guides to the cities of Suzhou and Shanghai.

The translation and publication of this novel in English has been made possible by the generosity of Mr William Chiu, through a philanthropic gift to the University of Western Sydney Foundation Trust.