XUJUN EBERLEIN
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Xujun Eberlein grew up in Chongqing, China, moved to the United States in 1988, and holds a Ph.D. from MIT.
Xujun's fiction and literary non-fiction works have been published in the Unites States, Canada, England, Kenya, and Hong Kong, and won a bunch of literary awards.
Her debut story collection, Apologies Forthcoming, won the 2007 Tartt Fiction Award and was published in the US in June 2008.
She is currently at work on a memoir and a novel set in China.
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APOLOGIES FORTHCOMING
Stories
Four decades ago China was embroiled in the Cultural Revolution, a period that turned the country on end and defined the generation of Chinese now coming to power. This collection of stories, departing from the usual "victim literature," provides an apolitical and humanistic view onto life during and after that time.
Winner of 2007 Tartt Fiction Award
From the publisher:
"A totally illuminating collection of stories centered around China's Cultural Revolution and its aftermath, which, as we learn, continues even today. Xujun Eberlein lived in China during that turmoil and now makes her home in America. This, her first story collection, is both disturbing and enthralling." - Livingston Press, 2008
Rights available: English ex. NA and Asia; translation rights.
Praise for Xujun Eberlein’s book
Xujun Eberlein is a fresh voice in American fiction, a Chinese writer with a remarkably shrewd, interesting tongue. …There is a richness in her vision that sets it apart." Jay Parini, Poet, novelist, biographer, professor; author of The Apprentice Lover
Xujun Eberlein has an intimate feel for how the general conditions of a culture--her native Chinese culture--shape and distress the lives of her characters. She is a gifted story-teller, attuned to how people think and feel and deal with the things that really matter behind the show of appearances. The stories have a subtly addictive momentum.
Sven Birkerts, Editor of AGNI and author of My Sky Blue Trade
Xujun Eberlein is a writer of uncommon talent. With affection and perception, she has drawn engaging characters struggling with love, friendship and loss in Chinese society during and after the Cultural Revolution. Apologies Forthcoming is a gem of a book. - Laila Lalami, author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
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