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Linda Rui Feng's debut novel, Swimming Back to Trout River, traces the far-flung orbits of a family across two continents, and explores the themes of music and migration in the aftermath of one of China’s most tumultuous eras in the twentieth century. The novel was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and has also been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize.

She teaches at the University of Toronto, where her research in Chinese cultural history often takes her to long-forgotten books from the ninth century and, more recently, the history of smell, scent and aromatics. ...more

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	Swimming Back to Trout River 3.87 avg rating — 2,697 ratings — published 2021 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swallowing Clouds: A Playful Journey Through Chinese Culture, Language, and Cuisine by A. Zee, Linda Rui Feng (Goodreads Author) (Afterword) 4.48 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 1990 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology of Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction (Weatherhead Books on Asia) by Mingwei Song (editor), Han Song, Ted Huters (Translator) 3.66 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	City of Marvel and Transformation: Chang'an and Narratives of Experience in Tang Dynasty China 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“One generation removed from the enterprise of reproduction, grandparents saw children as genuinely open possibilities. Unlike parents, who needed to see the best parts of themselves duplicated in their offspring, grandparents rarely had such prideful agendas -- and for that very reason, they ironically imprinted more of themselves on the young.”
― Linda Rui Feng, Swimming Back to Trout River

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“ut she knew, without really knowing she did, that the gossamer threads we put out into the world turned into filaments, and filaments into tendrils, and that what people called destiny was really the outward contours of billions of these tendrils, as they exerted their tug on each of us.”
― Linda Rui Feng, Swimming Back to Trout River

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“But she knew, without really knowing she did, that the gossamer threads we put out into the world turned into filaments, and filaments into tendrils, and that what people called destiny was really the outward contours of billions of these tendrils, as they exerted their tug on each of us.”
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