Love in the new millennium / Canxue ; forward by Eileen Myles ; translated from the Chinese by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen.
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- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0300224311
- 9780300224313
- Xin shi ji ai qing gu shi. English
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019
The most ambitious work of fiction by one of the world's greatest writers
"In this dreamlike novel . . . amid increasingly bizarre scenarios, appearances give way to hidden, otherworldly layers."-- New Yorker
In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flower beds and conspiracies abound. Some try to flee--whether to a mysterious gambling bordello, underground ancestral homes, or Nest County, where traditional medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self.
Can Xue's mesmerizing storytelling traces love's many guises--satirical, tragic, transient, lasting, nebulous, and fulfilling--against a kaleidoscopic backdrop of commerce and industry, fraud and exploitation, and sex and romance drawn from the East and the West.
880-02 Translation of: Xin shi ji ai qing gu shi. Originally published: Beijing : Zuo jia chu ban she, ©2013.