“Father’s Feet” from The Crossing of the Boars by Zhang Guixing, translated by Christopher G Rea and Julie Ming Wang Guan Ah-fung hanged himself from a jackfruit tree one sundown as wildfire whirled through fields of lalang grass, spewing a dirty haze that choked the jungle and enveloped half of Kampong Krokop, the Village of the Boars. Rays of the setting sun, striated by the smoke and the vapor of the fierce heat, floated like a school of gold…
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