Love in the New Millennium (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300224313)

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Love in the New Millennium

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Love in the New Millennium

$25.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Can Xue
ISBN-10: 0300224311
ISBN-13: 9780300224313
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/20/2018
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.00d
Award: Man Booker International Prize - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/01/2018 pg. 17
By Can Xue
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Can Xue is the pseudonym of the Chinese writer Deng Xiaohua (b. 1953). Formerly a tailor, she began writing fiction in 1983. Her works include Barefoot Doctor, Five Spice Street, The Last Lover, and I Live in the Slums. Annelise Finegan Wasmoen is academic director and clinical associate professor of translation at NYU School of Professional Studies. Eileen Myles is a poet, novelist, and art journalist whose books include For Now, Chelsea Girls, and Evolution.

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