First published in English in 1988, The Mountain Village introduced many English-language readers to one of Taiwan's most significant twentieth-century writers.

Chun-chan Yeh (Ye Chun-chan) writes with remarkable restraint, drawing on rural life in the Taiwanese mountains to illuminate the pressures of poverty, family obligation, social change and the erosion of traditional ways of living. Rather than grand historical narratives, these stories attend to everyday gestures, revealing the emotional weight carried inside ordinary routines.

There is a striking stillness to Yeh's prose; spinning thread, preparing food, tending animals or sharing rice wine become moments where larger questions of dignity, memory and survival quietly emerge. Although rooted in a particular place and culture, the collection belongs alongside writers such as Shen Congwen, Yasunari Kawabata and early Mo Yan in its ability to transform village life into something both intimate and universal. A beautifully understated collection for readers interested in East Asian literature, rural modernity and overlooked translated fiction.

1988 Faber paperback. Light shelf wear and age toning with a clean interior and sound binding.