“Snow and Shadow challenges the boundaries and limitations of our narrow, conventional realities and forces us to re-examine our perspective of the world. It is a book that requires bravery and an open mind. But, armed with these tools, many will find that this enchanting collection of transformative tales will, like a shadow, follow them long after the final page. - South China Morning Post

“The stories within Snow and Shadow build on each other with every new page. They are blunt, stark, and nightmarish, and this is what makes them all so exquisite... Through [Nicky] Harman, Dorothy Tse's collection manifests an individual voice in a world overflowing with the unexpected.” - Monkey Bicycle

“Plots for the stories in Snow and Shadow are often downright peculiar, yet it's almost impossible not to yield to Tse's confident and exact prose… Reading Snow and Shadow is akin to being lost in a snowstorm: dizzying, terrifying, but nevertheless thrilling.” - Words Without Borders

“By turns playful and melancholy, Dorothy Tse’s tales never fail to mesmerize: they are wonderfully assured, and genuinely strange.” - Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, author of Madeleine Is Sleeping

“Like the incongruous nouns cohabiting in her collection’s title, the human inmates of Dorothy Tse’s Snow and Shadow achieve an impossible intimacy made up of dismembering and transfiguring events. Here, the body is not so much a container for the soul as an area of vulnerability—a vulnerability which is amplified and transformed by contact with others into the material of wondrous events, both submolecular and world-sized. I’m stunned by the resolve, accomplishment, and strangeness of this vision. Tse joins the ranks of artists currently remaking the world, from Yoko Tawada to César Aira. Nicky Harman’s translations render Tse’s vision in an English at once self-contained and ripe with toxins, like radioactive fruit.” - Joyelle McSweeney, author of Nylund, The Sarcographer

“These stories are not for the faint-hearted. Dorothy Tse’s fictional world is haunted by shadows of death and violence. Yet it is hauntingly beautiful. The characters live out their fate as if caught in a surrealistic fable. Then we realize that this world can be none other than Hong Kong. Nicky Harman’s fluent, colloquial translation is itself a masterful feat and captures the tone and color of the original taut prose to the teeth. An indelible reading experience.” - Professor Leo Ou-fan Lee, author of Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China