Hunter

Author: Xuetao, Shuang

Anthologies (non-poetry)

Published on 19 June 2025 by Granta Publications Ltd (Granta Magazine Editions) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 288 pages
130 x 198 x 24 | 270g

A provincial ambulance drives through the night in search of a hospital, a fifth-rate actor goes method as a hitman on a sweltering rooftop, a legendary knife fighter is found working on the factory floor of a northern village. Hunter's stories of deceptive, brutal realism play with myth and history, offering sketches of ordinary life that take a magic realist turn.

Filled with dark humour and written with a tinge of noir, these stories grapple with the realities of life in contemporary China.