Diablo's Boys

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>Suwei is a teenage hermit with an overprotective mother and an addiction to video games. One day another young man penetrates Suwei's hermetically sealed existence and the two wander deep into the labyrinth of Diablo's virtual world. As Suwei and this enigmatic interloper Li Wen form an unspoken bond secrets are laid bare layer by layer: the damage done to Suwei and his mother's guilt and Li Wen's own gruesome past. These two boys neither of whom ever really grew up find themselves on a collision course drawn inexorably together by an undeniable truth: There is no escaping a mother's love. </span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>Yang Hao</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)> was born in Shanxi and grew up in Beijing. She studied film and art history and is now pursuing a PhD in comparative literature at Trinity College Dublin. In Chinese she has published an essay collection </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>Into Renaissance</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)> and two novels </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>Novel Noir</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>Diablo's Boys</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>. Her debut novel </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>Novel Noir</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)> was shortlisted for the Blancpain-Imaginist Literary Award in 2019. She currently lives in Dublin. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>Diablo's Boys</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)> is her first work to be translated.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>Nicky Harman </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)> lives in the UK. She has won several awards for Chinese literary translation including the 2020 Special Book Award China the 2015 Mao Tai Cup People's Literature Chinese-English translation prize and the 2013 China International Translation Contest Chinese-to-English section. When not translating she promotes contemporary Chinese fiction through teaching blogs talks and her work on Paper-Republic.org.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>Michael Day</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)> is a traveller translator and writer who lives in Los Angeles and Mexico City. His awards include the 2015 Bai Meigui Translation Prize and the 2020 Jules Chametzky Translation Prize. His work has appeared in </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>Georgia Review Massachusetts Review Words Without Borders</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>Chicago Quarterly Review</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)> among other publications.</span></p>