Fiction. Translated from the Swedish by Jennifer Hayashida. INNER CHINA, A TALE is the first of Eva Sjodin's books to betranslated into English. It is the poetic narrative of a young girlnavigating a tenuous yet vibrant landscape of hardship and neglect, resilience and self-reliance. "By turns catastrophic and luminous, INNER CHINA, in Jennifer Hayashida's translation, is unflincing in itsgaze, economical in its language, and fearless as it enters thedifficult terrain that is childhood. Here the interior and exteriorworlds, the magical and the mundane collide--brutally andbeautifully"--Genya Turovskaya