North of Shanghai, South of Beijing

This collection brings together fifteen years of Sonia Hu’s short fiction, set in Shanghai, Beijing and New York. It includes Beijing Memories Like Dust, The Artist’s Lover and Wife, Shanghai 2004 and Farewell, My Lover.

Love and the course of individual lives connect the stories, while their narrative approaches vary from intimate emotional observation to more detached perspectives. The three cities provide distinct settings for relationships, decisions and changing circumstances, offering readers a view of Sonia Hu’s range as a fiction writer.