Xi Xi's Mourning a Breast, translated from the Chinese by Jennifer Feeley, has been shortlisted for the China Books Review Baifang Schell Book Prize: Award for Outstanding Translated Literature from Chinese Language.
As the poet, novelist, and jury panelist Ha Jin writes, "[Mourning a Breast] is a genre bender in the tradition of W.G. Sebald, but also a pioneering work of fiction about the body and disease. Ingenious in conception, free and imaginative in execution, the book challenges the conventional form of the novel."
The winner, to be announced next month, will recieve a $10,000 prize.