The Margellos World Republic of Letters #: I Live in the Slums

Stories

The Margellos World Republic of Letters #: I Live in the Slums
Can Xue, Karen Gernant, Zeping Chen
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Hardback
h197 x 127mm - 344pg
14 Jul 2020 US
International import eta 10-30 days
9780300247435
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A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature Can Xue' s stories observe no obvious conventions of plot or characterization. That is the only rule they follow. Instead, they tend to limn a disordered and poetic state given structure by philosophical wonder and emotional rigor. Combining elements of both Chinese materiality-the love of physical things-and Western abstract thinking, Can Xue invites her readers into an immersive landscape that blends empirical fact and illusion, mixes the physical and spiritual, and probes the space between consciousness and oblivion. She brings us to a place that is both readily familiar yet unmappable and can make us hyperaware of the inherent unreliability in our relationship to the world around us. Delightful, enchanting, and filled with secrets, Can Xue' s newest collection shines a light on the forces that give contours to the visible terrain we acknowledge as reality.

A Greek Ballad: Selected Poems
A Sensitive Person: A Novel
Barefoot Doctor: A Novel
Book of Collateral Damage, The
Desirable Body
Dregs of the Day, The
Exemplary Novels
Family Record
I Live in the Slums: Stories
Late Fragments: Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed
Margellos World Republic of Letters: Valley of the Fallen, The
Mesopotamia
Punishment, The
Quick and the Dead, The: Selected Stories
Republic of Letters, The
Sleep of Memory
Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water
Valiant Little Tailor, The: A Novel
Wartime Notebooks: France, 1940-1944

"[An] eerie, unpredictable, cracked and crazy world . . . Sheer reading pleasure for sophisticated readers and a worthy starting point for initiates. "--Library Journal
Can Xue is the pseudonym of the renowned avant-garde author Deng Xiaohua. Her previous works include Five Spice Street,Vertical Motion, The Last Lover,Frontier, and Love in the New Millennium. Karen Gernant is professor emerita of Chinese history at Southern Oregon University. Chen Zeping is professor of Chinese linguistics at Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780300247435
Published: 14 Jul 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 197mm
Width: 127mm
Spine: 29mm
Pages: 344

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