Description: AN AWARD-WINNING, INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR: Sheng Keyi is the recipient of the Chinese People's Literature Prize, the Yu Dafu Prize for Fiction, and the Chinese Literature Media Award. Her first novel to be translated into English, Northern Girls was longlisted for the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize, and Sheng's works have been translated into nearly a dozen languages. A VOICE THAT CAN'T BE SILENCED: Death Fugue is still unpublished in China because of its provocative and bold allegorical depiction of the taboo subject of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and its frank confrontation with a legacy of protest and suppression in China. A CAUTIONARY TALE OF AUTHORITARIANISM: Sheng's utopian society Swan Valley eerily imagines a frightening reality in which the government monitors and dictates all aspects of personal life, removing all personal choice and liberties. A TIMELY EXAMINATION OF PROTEST: Death Fugue grapples with the necessity of protest in effecting social, political, and cultural change, a resonant issue for the current global movements.

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