Feather

Description

From one of China's most celebrated children's authors and 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Award-winner comes a philosophical picture bookNthe story of a single feather that is helplessly swept away on a journey of self discovery and belonging. Full color.

Author description

Cao Wenxuan is a professor of literature at Peking University. He is a member of the China Writer's Association as well as the Vice-President of the Beijing Writer's Association. Wenxuan was nominated and received more than 40 awards, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the Chinese National Book Award by the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP), and the Golden Butterfly Award of the Tehran International Film Festival.TRANSLATOR- Chloe Garcia-Roberts is the translator of Li Shangyin's Derangements of My Contemporaries- Miscellaneous Notes, which was awarded a 2013 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, and author of The Reveal (Noemi Press, 2015). She lives in Boston and is the managing editor for the Harvard Review.