All the Rivers Run South

I want to say that Ouyang Yu plays with language, but he doesn’t: what he does is recognise that language plays with us. This digressive, almost hallucinatory narrative unites Ouyang Yu’s abiding obsessions: identity, history, cultural hypocrisy, race, the nature of storytelling. How do we approach a story as loose as life – one that will honour the messiness of life lived in what cannot help being both its first and final draft? All the Rivers Run South is about the work of addressing ones...