Su Tong, Man Asian Literary Prize-winning novelist and much-beloved
author of Raise the Red Lantern, returns with a novel of moral
dilemma and depravity in newly-capitalist 1980s China
'Su is a master of implication... - The Guardian
'His strokes are restrained but merciless. (Su Tong) is a true
literary talent' - Anchee Min, author of Red Azalea
The painterly quality of Tong's words is striking' - The Times
Prey, Predator, Predator, Prey.
On this street, the hunters are also the hunted.
The people of China tell of an ancient tale, where the mantis hunts the
cicada, unaware of the yellow bird behind it. In a small corner of one
of its many cities, a random act of violence sets off a spinning top,
entwining the lives of three people.
Baorun, the compulsive bondage expert, is forever aided and abetted by
Liu Sheng, a brash troublemaker, to indulge in his obsessions; and the
lady Fairy Princess, ever-youthful, becomes the target of the pair's
escalating antics.
As the years pass, many things begin to change, but in the dysfunctional
world of a mental hospital at the end of Red Toon Street, just who is
prey, and who is predator?
Often insightful and occasionally unsettling, Shadow of the Hunter is
a memorable tale concerned with guilt, injustice, madness and the
struggle not to lose one's soul to history. It is one of Su Tong's most
acclaimed works, now available in English for the first time.
