Can Xue - Böcker

Jag bor i slummen är en samling berättelser om att existera i utkanten. Här kilar en råtta från hus till hus i de trånga fattigkvarteren, där den möter de besynnerliga varelser som lever tillsammans i dunklet. I staden bygger en skata stolt sitt b...

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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 world's great contemporary novelists ¿ "A complex and illuminating portrait of a group of healers in China . . . [that] offers profound insights about what it means ...

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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 lay...

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Genombrottet - en föreställning handlar om livet på en gata i en fiktiv stad i Kina. Dess invånare spekulerar om den mystiska fru X. Romanen väver samman deras ändlösa antaganden till ett verk som är både en politisk liknelse och en surrealistisk ...

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Jag bor i slummen är en samling berättelser om att existera i utkanten. Här kilar en råtta från hus till hus i de trånga fattigkvarteren, där den möter de besynnerliga varelser som lever tillsammans i dunklet. I staden bygger en skata stolt sitt b...

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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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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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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 internationa...

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The first full-length novel by Chinese author Can Xue to appear in English ¿ "There's 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, Publish...

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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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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 ¿ "There's something inescapably cosmic about [Can Xue's] writing: the grandn...

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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 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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A celebration of the beguiling power of literature, from one of the world's greatest storytellers ¿ At the Pigeon Book Club, a circle of readers gathers for exhilarating meetings to discuss literature. The only requirements for entry are an all-en...

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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 work of Can...

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Can Xue draws the reader into a world of the grotesque and the surreal, of uncertain spaces and indeterminate identities, of sexual menace and psychological disorientation. These novellas are about life in post-Mao China, but not the China of soci...

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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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"e;There's a new world master among us, and her name is Can Xue."e;Robert CooverTwo 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 under...

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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 AwardInMother River, Can Xue, one of Chinas most daring and visionary writers, invites us into a surreal landscape where reality is as fluid as a river itself. This collection of thirteen stories weaves toge...

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Wei Bo irrlichtert durch eine Welt stÿndiger 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 ÿberwachung b...

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