The Sacred Clan Jacqueline Saphra seems destined for success

seems destined for success

Shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize

Translated by Hubert Moore and Nasrin Parvez

and special places of Ireland (Inishfallen

The Sacred Clan Jacqueline Saphra seems destined for successWu Township is hollowing out. Our most capable sons and daughters have long since uprooted from their birthplace on the central plains to fuel Chinas economic miracle. The ancient trees now sit in the shade of a modern aqueduct, funnelling even our precious water to the metropolises beyond. From the marketplace where gossip is traded to the long abandoned execution grounds, ordinary life carries on. For we who remain, feuds between neighbours compound