Description:
Framed as an advice booklet, Letters to Little Comrade takes us on a dystopic journey that circles around Little Comrade's attempts to find happiness and purpose in her life, whether by finding fulfilling work, finding love, by pleasing her parents or by leaving her country.
Brief description:
Dan K. Woo travelled and worked in Hong Kong and Mainland China for over a decade. In 2018 he won the Ken Klonsky Award for Learning How to Love China (Quattro Books). His writing has appeared in such publications as the South China Morning Post, Quill & Quire and China Daily USA. Dan taught English at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario, and now occasionally teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. A Toronto native, he lives with his partner in the city and works for cybersecurity start-up GoSecure.
Review Quotes:
"Learning How to Love China exploits [the] tension between realistic narrative and propaganda to powerful effect, producing a biting satire of modern China that has a great deal to say about hope, aspiration, and the way both interact with the false utopianism of agitprop.