Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9780300240481
Series Statement:
A Margellos world republic of letters book
Uniform Title:
Xin shi ji ai qing gu shi
Content:
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 flowerbeds 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 only be reached 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 drawn from East and West of commerce and industry, fraud and exploitation, sex and romance
Note:
Translation of: Xin shi ji ai qing gu shi. Originally published: Beijing : Zuo jia chu ban she, ©2013
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword: Inside Can Xue by Eileen Myles; Acknowledgments; Love in the New Millennium; 1. Cuilan and Wei Bo; 2. Wei Bo and A Si's Past Affair; 3. Long Sixiang's Inner Quest; 4. Wei Bo's Wife Xiao Yuan; 5. The Antiques Appraiser; 6. The Doctor's Worldview; 7. Wei Bo in Prison; 8. Officer Xiao He's One- Sided Love; 9. Sentiment al Education; 10. In Nest County; 11. Brave A Si
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Translated into English from the original Chinese
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Canxue, 1953- Love in the new millennium New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018] ISBN 0300224311
Language:
English
Author information:
Myles, Eileen 1949-
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