Geling Yan schafft Erzählungen, die sich mit der Komplexität menschlicher Beziehungen und gesellschaftlicher Zwänge auseinandersetzen, oft vor dem Hintergrund der chinesischen Geschichte. Ihr Schreiben zeichnet sich durch scharfe psychologische Einsichten und einen kraftvollen Erzählstil aus, der die Leser tief in das Leben ihrer Charaktere hineinzieht. Mit einem Hintergrund, der von darstellender Kunst bis hin zu Kriegsjournalismus reicht, bringt Yan eine einzigartige Perspektive in ihre Geschichten ein. Ihre Werke, die häufig für das Kino adaptiert werden, zeugen von einem tiefen Verständnis der menschlichen Natur und der bemerkenswerten Fähigkeit, die Essenz verschiedener Epochen einzufangen.
Run by Father Engelmann, an American priest who has been in China for many years, the church is supposedly neutral ground in the war between China and Japan. Full of wonderful characters, from the austere priest to the irreverent prostitutes, it is a story about how war upsets all prejudices and how love can flourish amidst death.
From one of China's most acclaimed writers, this is an unflinching, erotic and exciting tale of forbidden love in the gold rush era of turn-of-the-century San Francisco. Geling Yan traces the lives of two individuals separated by prejudice and mistrust, but bound forever by their passion for one another. Fusang is a Chinese girl shanghaied from her village in China, brought to California and sold into the seedy underworld of prostitution. Soon she falls into an obsessive relationship with Chris, an 11-year-old boy. As years pass, numerous barriers are placed between the lovers - by Chris's wealthy family, and most menacingly by Fusang's murderous pimp, who bestrides Chinatown with a clutch of daggers at his waist.
Dan, an unemployed factory worker, sneaks into state-sponsored banquets for free gourmet meals. However, the secrets he overhears at these events lead him into a complex web of intrigue and unexpected consequences.
"Hongmei is the perfect Asian wife: beautiful, diligent, and passive. She lives a quiet life in Northern California with her husband, Glen, an intelligent and caring college professor. But when a mysterious person begins to email her, Hongmei can't resist and soon finds herself enthralled in a psychological cat-and-mouse game. Who is stalking her? And why does s/he know her deepest, darkest secrets? As Hongmei is forced to confront her own dark past in China, her perfect life begins to fall apart. Desperate and self-destructive, she embarks on an investigation into her emailer's secret history. One that may tear her life and marriage apart forever"--