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Zhang Ling


Born
China

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AKA as 张翎 and Ling Zhang

张翎 Zhang Ling is the award-winning author of nine novels and numerous collections of novellas and short stories. Born in China, she moved to Canada in 1986. In the mid-1990s, she began to write and publish fiction in Chinese while working as a clinical audiologist. Since then she has won the Chinese Media Literature Award for Author of the Year, the Grand Prize of Overseas Chinese Literary Award, and Taiwan’s Open Book Award. Among Zhang Ling’s work are Gold Mountain Blues and Aftershock, adapted into China’s first IMAX movie with unprecedented box-office success at the time. from Amazon.com
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Average rating: 4.03 · 18,203 ratings · 1,428 reviews · 4 distinct worksSimilar authors
A Single Swallow

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4.16 avg rating — 10,072 ratings — published 2017 — 15 editions
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Where Waters Meet

3.86 avg rating — 7,448 ratings — published 2023 — 9 editions
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Aftershock

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4.12 avg rating — 552 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions
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Gold Mountain Blues

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3.80 avg rating — 248 ratings — published 2009 — 25 editions
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“God and the bodhisattvas are useless,” she said. “They only control good people, not bad people.”
Ling Zhang, A Single Swallow

“You were smart, but there were plenty of people in the world who were smarter than you, and cleverness is sometimes the biggest obstacle. Fortunately, you were also diligent and persistent. Diligence clips the wings of cleverness, allowing it to stay firmly on the ground. Persistence grinds away the sharp edges of cleverness, not allowing it to take shortcuts through things. Cleverness thus clipped can more fully penetrate the nature of things.”
Ling Zhang, A Single Swallow

“In God’s eyes, a thousand years was like a day, and a day was like a thousand years. In the same way, one person was a universe, and perhaps the universe was a single person”
Ling Zhang, A Single Swallow

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