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Xu Zechen

徐则臣

Born 1978 · China

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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Mao Dun 2019 · Winner

    北上

    Beishang

    Title translated by AI:“Northward”

    Xu Zechen · 40 when first published

    Novel · Historical, Family

    AI-generated summary:In 1901 an Italian adventurer who calls himself Little Polo travels up the Grand Canal with a Chinese interpreter and a mixed crew, looking for his brother, lost during the Boxer war; a century later their descendants meet.

  • No English yet

    Mao Dun 2015 · Nominee

    耶路撒冷

    Yelusaleng

    Xu Zechen · 36 when first published

    Novel · Coming of age, Migration

    AI-generated summary:About to leave for a doctorate in Jerusalem, a columnist born in the 1970s returns to the canal-side street where he grew up to sell his family's house, and the friends and the old guilt he left behind come back to him.