Mary Lee
Mary Lee holds degrees in English literature from the University of Hong Kong and University of London. Since 2006, she has been Administrator for the Man Asian Literary Prize.
Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino
MARY LEE | 24 March 2007It is still a shock to the Japanese years after the famous 1997 case known as the "Murder of Tokyo Electric Power's Elite Lady": the thirty-nine year-old victim, a researcher in a prestigious company by day, and a street-prostitute by night, was found dead in an abandoned apartment in Shibuya, Tokyo.
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The Uninvited by Geling Yan
MARY LEE | 17 January 2007Just what is at stake in the new capitalist China? In her first English novel, THE UNINVITED, GELING YAN deals with the topic of propaganda masquerading as journalism in contemporary China. Yan's impassive and sometimes detached narrative of modern-day China intensifies the absurdities as veiled truths gradually unfold.
Dan Dong, who is from impoverished Northern China, resides with his wife, Little Plum, in... [ more ]
