• Title: The True Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales
• Author: Lu Hsun
• Genre/Subject: 20th century Chinese fiction (Chinktion)
• Publisher: Kindle
• Publication Date: 1920
• Start date: 2/28/2022
• Finish date: 3/4/2022

Review:

This was really good. Very different from conventional western short fiction, but very well written and enjoyable to read.

The true story of Ah-Q is superb, and it made me lol in parts.

Some are tough to read, people starving and dying and it’s always snowing. No wonder Hsun liked Russian literature so much.

Some of the stories were very culturally specific, meaning they had elements that you would “just know” if you were Chinese and lived in China, like how we don’t have to have a book tell us to run counterclockwise around the bases in baseball.

Annotated version will be my next choice when I come back to read the rest of his work.