Dorothy Tse

Jan 25, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Jonny Steinberg |Lorrie Moore |Kim Hyesoon |Dorothy Tse

The National Book Critics Circle has announced 30 finalists in six categories—autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, general nonfiction, and poetry—for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Awards, which recognizes books from the publishing year 2023.

Jan 19, 2024 | corriere.it | Dorothy Tse

Dicono che l’amore renda ciechi.Nel caso del professor Q sarebbe stato più corretto dire che l’amore aveva modificato la sua percezione della realtà. Era un pomeriggio d’inverno. L’aria pesante e vischiosa faceva venire il mal di testa. Lui gettò uno sguardo oltre le grate in acciaio inox della finestrella del soggiorno — un gesto consueto — ma non vide il mare. Non vide la distesa d’acqua frantumata dai raggi del sole affilati come lame.

Jun 8, 2023 | lithub.com | Dorothy Tse

The following is from Dorothy Tse's Owlish. Tse is a Hong Kong writer who has received the Hong Kong Book Prize, the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature, and Taiwan’s Unitas New Fiction Writers’ Award. Her first book in English, Snow and Shadow (translated by Nicky Harman), was long-listed for the Best Translated Book Award. She is the co-founder of the literary journal Fleurs des Lettres.

Jun 6, 2023 | graywolfpress.org | Dorothy Tse

With your face covered, sneaking into a city you thought you knew, are you still yourself? Or have you crossed to another world, where the streets are unpredictable and the people strangers, where you might at any moment run into some unknown dream version of yourself? In a city called Nevers, there lives a professor of literature called Q. He has a dull marriage and a lackluster career, but also a scrumptious collection of antique dolls locked away in his cupboard.

Jun 6, 2023 | bookshop.org | Dorothy Tse

"Tse's prose curls around Q like a vine, dropping him in landscapes that are equal parts Bosch and Freud, lush and deranged. Imagine an after-hours cut of Disney's 'Fantasia'; Alexander Portnoy on acid; a Losing Your Virginity theme park brought to you by Mephistopheles. . . .