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I denna kalejdoskopiska roman lever en grupp kvinnor i ett samhälle där konspirationerna och paranoian lurar bakom varje hörn, liksom magin. På traktens bomullsfabrik utnyttjades många men lyckades fly, för att nu, nöjda, arbeta på en bordell. En ...

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A profound, poignant story of a village healer and her community, from one of the worlds great contemporary novelists A complex and illuminating portrait of a group of healers in China . . . [that] offers profound insights about what it means to p...

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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....

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Two young girls sneak onto the grounds of a hospital, where they find a disturbing moment of silence in a rose garden. A couple grows a plant that blooms underground, invisibly, to their long-time neighbors consternation. A cat worries about its s...

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From the sensational Chinese author who has been called a new world master, a Kafkaesque novel set in a fictional Western nation Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award for fiction, presented by Three Percent, a resource for international li...

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Longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature Theres something inescapably cosmic about [Can Xues] writing: the grandness of ...

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The first full-length novel by Chinese author Can Xue to appear in English Five Spice Street tells the story of a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. The novel interweaves their endless suppos...

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The first full-length novel by Chinese author Can Xue to appear in EnglishFive Spice Street tells the story of a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. The novel interweaves their endless supposi...

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The first full-length novel by Chinese author Can Xue to appear in English Theres no other writer in China like Can Xue . . . strange, surreal, and very compelling . . . [and] this novel is probably the best place to start.Chad Post, Publishers We...

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Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award for fiction, presented by Three Percent, a resource for international literature  In Can Xue’s extraordinary book, we encounter a full assemblage of husbands, wives, and lovers. Entwined in ...

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The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China today In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flower beds an...

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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, th...

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A profound, poignant story of a village healer and her community, from one of the worlds great contemporary novelists A complex and illuminating portrait of a group of healers in China . . . [that] offers profound insights about what it means to p...

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A profound, poignant story of a village healer and her community, from one of the world's great contemporary novelists "e;A complex and illuminating portrait of a group of healers in China . . . [that] offers profound insights about what it me...

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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....

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The thirteen stories of "Dialogues in Paradise "are eloquent in a way the West associates with both the modern and the ancient: the dark oracles of Aeschylus and Sophocles, the paranoid mystery of Kafka, the moving stream of Woolf. The w...

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A selection of harsh, sometimes violent, and often surreal stories by the premier young avant-garde Chinese woman writer. A couple moves with their young daughter to the seaside, only to be terrorized by hostile townsfolk, predatory seabirds, and ...

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Can Xue (pronounced "e;tsan shway"e;) is considered by many to be the most spirited, fearless, radical fiction writer to come out of contemporary China. Even her name is marked by tenacity (it's a pen name referring to dirty, leftover snow...

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is an arts and literature quarterly magazine, with triannual print and monthly online editions. The magazine launched in London in February 2011 to provide 'a space for a new generation to express itself unconstrained by form, subject or genre',...

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Can Xue is a master of the dreamscape, crafting stories that inhabit the space where fantasy and reality, the quotidian and the extraordinary, meet. The stories in this striking and lyrical new collectionpopulated by old married couples, children,...

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A surreal, fantastic coming-of-age novel blending Eastern and Western beliefs, from the winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award.

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New Novel from the Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book AwardIntroduction by Porochista Khakpour."e;One of the most raved-about works of translated fiction this year"e;-Jonathan Sturgeon, FlavorwireFrontier opens with the story of Liuji...

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Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award The thirteen stories in this collection are vintage Can Xue. Similar to her novels ( The Last Lover , Frontier ) and other collections ( Vertical Motion ) the focus is less on what happens and more on ...

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Wei Bo irrlichtert durch eine Welt ständiger erotischer Verfügbarkeit, in der er zum Spielball in einer geheimnisvoll matriarchal kontrollierten Gesellschaft wird. Vier Frauen dominieren seine Welt, in der sich alle in permanenter Überwachung befi...

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"e;Wenn es eine chinesische Kandidatin fur den Nobelpreis gibt, dann ist es sicher Can Xue."e; Susan SontagWei Bo irrlichtert durch eine Welt stndiger erotischer Verfgbarkeit, in der er zum Spielball in einer geheimnisvoll matriarchal kont...

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I denna kalejdoskopiska roman lever en grupp kvinnor i ett samhälle där konspirationerna och paranoian lurar bakom varje hörn, liksom magin. På traktens bomullsfabrik utnyttjades många men lyckades fly, för att nu, nöjda, arbeta på en bordell. En ...

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