SHADOW OF THE HUNTER

This novel by Su Tong centers on the love triangle between three teenagers in a small southern Chinese town in the 1980s. A violent sexual assault, followed by a false accusation, changes their lives forever. Ten years later, and still shadowed by the past, the three protagonists reunite for a final clash. The novel’s Chinese title, Chronicle of the Yellow Finch, is a reference to the Chinese idiom, “The praying mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the yellow finch behind it.”