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Canxue, 1953-
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I live in the slums : stories / Can Xue ; translated from the Chinese by
Karen
Gernant
and Chen Zeping.
by
Canxue, 1953-
Yale University Press, [2020]
Call #:
FICTION CAN
Series
Margellos world republic of letters book.
ISBN:
9780300247435 (hc.)
Description:
331 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
In English, translated from the Chinese.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Story of the slums -- Our human neighbors -- The old cicada -- The swamp -- Sin -- The other side of the partition -- Shadow people -- Crow Mountain -- Catfish pit -- Euphoria -- Lu-er's worries -- Her old home -- I am a willow tree -- The outsiders -- The queen -- Venus.
Summary:
Combining elements of both Chinese materiality--the love of physical things--and Western abstract thinking, Can Xue's stories invite her readers into an immersive landscape that blends reality and illusion, mixes the physical and spiritual, and probes the space between consciousness and unconsciousness.
Genre:
Short stories.
Chinese fiction -- Translations into English.
Other authors:
Gernant
,
Karen
.
Chen, Zeping.
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