Swimming Back to Trout River is a symphony of a novel that is operatic in scope and elevated by Linda Rui Feng’s artful writing.
Simon & Schuster
9781982129392
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Simon & Schuster
9781982129392
Swimming Back to Trout River is a symphony of a novel that is operatic in scope and elevated by Linda Rui Feng’s artful writing.
A little over halfway through Swimming Back to Trout River, readers encounter a chapter titled “The Improviser’s Guide to Untranslatable Words” in which they are introduced to several Chinese metaphysical terms. The first, yuanfen, is a subtler counterpart to the concept of fate. Rather than certain actions or outcomes being predestined and set in stone,…
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