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douqiPre-orders for the Chinese mainland print edition of Above the Fates (万丈红尘之轻, pinyin: wanzhang hongchen zhi qing) by Si Bai Ba Shi Si (四百八十寺) will be opening today at 1900 China Standard Time. This is a corporate thriller, and both of the leads seem to be hyper-competent CEO types (in the best romance novel tradition, they also make a cameo appearance in the author's subsequent novel, A Taste of You (食局, pinyin: shi ju). This edition is in simplified Chinese, and censored. An uncensored print edition in traditional Chinese was previously released by Taiwanese publisher morefate.
3,000 signed copies in total will be available on the market, distributed among a number of bookshops participating in the pre-sale, and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis (with an upper limit of two signed copies per purchaser). These bookshops include:
The web version of the novel can be read here on JJWXC.
As an aside, I feel the author should be commended for providing English versions of her novel titles that actually make sense as titles to an English-first reader. A Taste of You also mentions (i) Schengen visas; (ii) Cheltenham Ladies' College; (iii) Yorkshire (!!!) (I used to live in Yorkshire, so this was especially exciting, and I've headcanoned that the section set in Yorkshire takes place in Hebden Bridge), and part of it is set in Aalberg, which is treated as a specific and real place rather than a nebulous and nameless 'foreign' country.
3,000 signed copies in total will be available on the market, distributed among a number of bookshops participating in the pre-sale, and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis (with an upper limit of two signed copies per purchaser). These bookshops include:
The web version of the novel can be read here on JJWXC.
As an aside, I feel the author should be commended for providing English versions of her novel titles that actually make sense as titles to an English-first reader. A Taste of You also mentions (i) Schengen visas; (ii) Cheltenham Ladies' College; (iii) Yorkshire (!!!) (I used to live in Yorkshire, so this was especially exciting, and I've headcanoned that the section set in Yorkshire takes place in Hebden Bridge), and part of it is set in Aalberg, which is treated as a specific and real place rather than a nebulous and nameless 'foreign' country.
