Jin Yong - A Hero Born; what a start!
16 March 2018
A Hero Born, the first part of Jin Yong’s epic Chinese fantasy series Legends of the Condor Heroes, is book of the day in the Guardian; Marcel Theroux’s glowing review can be found here.
Anna Holmwood’s terrific translation has also been reprinted six times by MacLehose Press since publication in late February.
This amounts to an extraordinary first step in the English language for China’s bestselling living writer. And there are still eleven books to come…