'Rich with historical detail, Xiao Bai's French Concession is a sensual, intellectual thriller - which like human memory, is pulled from the chaos of truth and lies, desire and regret.' Simon Van Booy 'An absorbing novel of character and mood ... Readers of Alan Furst's noir novels of Europe on the edge of World War II will find much to enjoy in this superior novel.' Library Journal

Xiao Bai was born in 1968 in Shanghai, and began writing in 2009. His first book, a collection of essays entitled HORNY HAMLET (2009), was a prize winner in China. His debut novel, GAME POINT, followed in 2010, and FRENCH CONCESSION, his second novel, appeared in 2011 in China. It is being widely translated, and is his first book to appear in the English language. In 2013, his novella, XU XIANGBI THE SPY won the 10th Annual Shanghai Literary Prize. Xiao Bai lives in Shanghai. Translator Chenxin Jiang was born in Singapore and grew up in Hong Kong. Her work has received a PEN Translation Fund Grant and the Susan Sontag Prize for Translation. She is currently translating a Cultural Revolution memoir by Ji Xianlin for New York Review Books. She has most recently lived in Shanghai, Chicago, and Berlin.