June 2010

Point de Vue

Click the attachment to read a recent review of Shan Sa in the French Point de Vue.

Shan Sa's recently published novel 'The Naked Zither' or 'La Cithare Nue' was named by FNAC as one of the top ten selling novels in Europe.

The novel, 'The Naked Zither', is set in China during the South-North dynasties (420-589 AD), alongside the Yangzi River, when North China, occupied by the nomad tribes, clashed with Southern China of Chinese exiles.

Born to an aristocratic family, she was kidnapped the day before her wedding by a captain of the Imperial Army and forced to follow the path of his warfare. After falling into a world of violence, hunger and disease, she was unexpectedly taken to the Forbidden City.

October, 2009

Written by Sam Gaskin, Shanghai Talk Magazine

Shan Sa is perhaps best known as the author of The Girl Who Played Go, the novel she wrote in French. However, from a young age she has also been a painter and poet, learning calligraphy and traditional Chinese watercolour painting at seven, and publishing a book of poems at eight. Having previously exhibited ink and watercolour works here in Shanghai, on this visit she is showing dramatic abstract oil paintings – alien planets with their own emotional lives.