Aleksander Hemon and Wenguang Huang

Aleksandar Hemon’s new work of non-fiction is The Book of My Lives. “He can do many marvelous things,” wrote Glyn Maxwell. “He writes paragraphs that free-fall through history, clutching at twigs of the long gone and the passing by, to render moments of deep resonance and beauty.” Wenguang Huang’s memoir is The Little Red Guard. He is “a master storyteller,” wrote Philip Gourevitch. “Vividly engaging and often surprising, this memoir of coming of age in an ordinary Chinese family amid the social and political wreckage of Mao’s Cultural Revolution is uncommonly wise and deeply moving.”