Fiction
The Membranes: A novel by Chi Ta-wei, translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich
by Josh Stenberg •
There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen,’ Vladimir Lenin has been credited with saying, with reference to the Bolshevik Revolution. It’s a sentiment that immediately springs to mind when reading Jessica Stanley’s A Great Hope, a début that, while not billed as historical fiction, is deeply concerned with history and its making.
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