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Biographical note
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.“In this dreamlike novel . . . amid increasingly bizarre scenarios, appearances give way to hidden, otherworldly layers.”—<i>New Yorker</i><br /><br />“I typed this review in one go in 30 minutes or so, and it’s not often I’m this enthused to share as much about a book after finishing. I think it attests to the novel’s greatness.”—Tommi Laine, <i>Literary Noise</i><br /><br />Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019<br /><br />Best Translated Book Award long list finalist in the Fiction category, sponsored by Three Percent<br /><br />Shortlisted for the Internationaler Literaturpreis 2022, sponsored by Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Foundation Elementarteilchen<br /><br />“<i>Love in the New Millennium</i> is, as always with Can Xue’s work, a marvel. She is one of the most innovative and important contemporary writers in China and, in my opinion, in world literature.”—Bradford Morrow, author of <i>The Prague Sonata</i><br /><br /><i>Praise for Can Xue:</i><br /> <br /> “There’s a new world master among us, and her name is Can Xue.”—Robert Coover<br /> <br /> “If China has one possibility of a Nobel laureate it is Can Xue.”—Susan Sontag<br /><br />