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Love in the new millennium / Canxue ; forward by Eileen Myles ; translated from the Chinese by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen.
LIBRA PL2912.A5174 X5613 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Canxue, 1953- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Xin shi ji ai qing gu shi. English
- 新世纪爱情故事. English
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paramours.
- Husband and wife--Fiction.
- Husband and wife.
- Paramours--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Romance fiction.
- Love stories.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 264 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- 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 and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a community that normalizes paranoia and suspicion. Some try to flee--whether to a mysterious gambling bordello or to ancestral homes that can be reached only underground through muddy caves, sewers, and tunnels. Others seek out the refuge of Nest County, where traditional Chinese herbal medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self. Each life is circumscribed by buried secrets and transcendent delusions. Can Xue's masterful love stories for the new millennium trace 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.
- Contents:
- Love in the New Millennium
- 1 Cuilan and Wei Bo p. 3
- 2 Wei Bo and A Si's Past Affair p. 45
- 3 Long Sixiang's Inner Quest p. 82
- 4 Wei Bo's Wife Xiao Yuan p. 100
- 5 The Antiques Appraiser p. 117
- 6 The Doctor's Worldview p. 144
- 7 Wei Bo in Prison p. 163
- 8 Officer Xiao He's One-Sided Love p. 181
- 9 Sentimental Education p. 191
- 10 In Nest County p. 203
- 11 Brave A Si p. 234.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Xin shi ji ai qing gu shi. Originally published: Beijing : Zuo jia chu ban she, ©2013.
- Translation of: 新世纪爱情故事. Originally published: 北京 : 作家出版社, ©2013.
- ISBN:
- 0300224311
- 9780300224313
- OCLC:
- 1059245320
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