Love in the New Millennium (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
288
Utgivningsdatum
2024-04-23
Utmärkelser
Long-listed for Man Booker International Prize 2019 (UK)
Förlag
Yale University Press
Översättare
Annelise Finegan Wasmoen
Medarbetare
Myles, Eileen (foreword)
Illustratör/Fotograf
1 b-w illus
Illustrationer
1 b-w illus.
Dimensioner
228 x 154 x 20 mm
Vikt
345 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780300278262

Love in the New Millennium

av Can Xue
Häftad,  Engelska, 2024-04-23
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Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019 The most ambitious work of fiction by one of the worlds 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 fleewhether to a mysterious gambling bordello, underground ancestral homes, or Nest County, where traditional medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self. Can Xues mesmerizing storytelling traces loves many guisessatirical, tragic, transient, lasting, nebulous, and fulfillingagainst a kaleidoscopic backdrop of commerce and industry, fraud and exploitation, and sex and romance drawn from the East and the West.
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In this dreamlike novel . . . amid increasingly bizarre scenarios, appearances give way to hidden, otherworldly layers.New Yorker I typed this review in one go in 30 minutes or so, and its not often Im this enthused to share as much about a book after finishing. I think it attests to the novels greatness.Tommi Laine, Literary Noise Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019 Best Translated Book Award long list finalist in the Fiction category, sponsored by Three Percent Shortlisted for the Internationaler Literaturpreis 2022, sponsored by Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Foundation Elementarteilchen Love in the New Millennium is, as always with Can Xues work, a marvel. She is one of the most innovative and important contemporary writers in China and, in my opinion, in world literature.Bradford Morrow, author of The Prague Sonata Praise for Can Xue: Theres a new world master among us, and her name is Can Xue.Robert Coover If China has one possibility of a Nobel laureate it is Can Xue.Susan Sontag

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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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