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  • Frontier

    by Can Xue ...
    Translated by Karen Gernant, Chen Zeping ...
    A surreal, fantastic coming-of-age novel blending Eastern and Western beliefs, from the winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mother River

    by Can Xue ...
    Translated by Karen Gernant, Chen Zeping ...
    Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book AwardIn Mother River, Can Xue, one of China’s 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 together vivid, dreamlike narratives that challenge our perceptions of time, identity, and existence.Through her signature blend of the absurd and the ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Enchanting Lives of Others

    A Novel

    by Can Xue, Porochista Khakpour ...
    Translated by Annelise Finegan ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    A celebration of the beguiling power of literature, from one of the world’s greatest storytellersAt the Pigeon Book Club, a circle of readers gathers for exhilarating meetings to discuss literature. The only requirements for entry are an all-encompassing love of books and the intuition that to read is to love and to love is to read. Xiao Sang, a department store clerk, wonders if life can ever ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Vertical Motion

    by Can Xue ...
    Translated by Karen Gernant, Chen Zeping ...
    Thirteen dreamy stories from one of China's most innovative writers. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Barefoot Doctor

    A Novel

    by Can Xue ...
    Translated by Karen Gernant, Zeping Chen ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    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 to pursue and live a fulfilling life.”—Publishers Weekly“A barefoot doctor herself, [Can Xue] has a unique and powerful way of transporting readers to new ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Five Spice Street

    by Can Xue, Karen Gernant, Zeping Chen ...
    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 suppositions into a work that is at once political parable and surreal fantasia. Some think X is 50 years old; others that she is 22. Some believe she has occult powers and has thereby enslaved the young men of the street; others ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Love in the New Millennium

    by Can Can Xue, Eileen Myles ...
    Translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China todayIn 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 ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • I Live in the Slums

    Stories

    by Can Xue ...
    Translated by Karen Gernant, Zeping Chen ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literatureCan Xue’s stories observe no obvious conventions of plot or characterization. That is the only rule they follow. Instead, they tend to limn a disordered and poetic state given structure by philosophical wonder and emotional rigor.Combining elements of both Chinese materiality—the ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • The Last Lover

    by Can Xue ...
    Translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    In Can Xue’s extraordinary book, we encounter a full assemblage of husbands, wives, and lovers. Entwined in complicated, often tortuous relationships, these characters step into each other’s fantasies, carrying on conversations that are “forever guessing games.” Their journeys reveal the deepest realms of human desire, figured in Can Xue’s vision of snakes and wasps, crows, cats, mice, earthquakes ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Embroidered Shoes

    Stories

    by Can Xue ...
    Can Xue (pronounced "tsan shway") is considered by many to be the most spirited, fearless, radical fiction writer to come out of contemporary China. Even her name is marked by tenacity (it's a pen name referring to dirty, leftover snow that refuses to melt). Her most important work to date, The Embroidered Shoes is a collection of lyrical, irreverent, sassy, wise, maddening, celebratory tales in ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Love in the New Millennium

    by Can Xue ...
    Narrated by Janet Song ...
    Series series Margellos World Republic of Letters

    Unabridged

    12 hours 35 min

    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 ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Frontier

    by Can Xue ...
    Narrated by Rebecca Lam ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours

    New Novel from the Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book AwardFrontier opens with the story of Liujin, a young woman heading out on her own to create her own life in Pebble Town, a somewhat surreal place at the base of Snow Mountain where wolves roam the streets and certain enlightened individuals can see and enter a paradisaical garden.Exploring life in this city (or in the frontier) through ... Read more

    $24.99 USD