Love in the New Millennium
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Love in the New Millennium
Love in the New Millennium
The most ambitious work of fiction by one of the world’s greatest writers
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.
Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780300278262
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 23 April 2024
Country: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Illustration: 1 b-w illus.
Contributors:
- Foreword by Eileen Myles
- Translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen
- Translated by Annelise Finegan
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 288
About the Author
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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