"There's a new world master among us, and her name is Can
Xue."—Robert Coover
Two young girls sneak onto the grounds of a hospital, where they find
a disturbing moment of silence in a rose garden. A couple grows a
plant that blooms underground, invisibly, to their long-time
neighbor's consternation. A cat worries about its sleepwalking owner,
who receives a mysterious visitor while he's asleep. After a ten-year
absence, a young man visits his uncle, on the twenty-fourth floor of a
high-rise that is floating in the air, while his ugly cousin hesitates
on the stairs . . .
Can Xue is a master of the dreamscape, crafting stories that inhabit
the space where fantasy and reality, time and timelessness, the
quotidian and the extraordinary, meet. The stories in this striking
and lyrical new collection—populated by old married couples,
children, cats, and nosy neighbors, the entire menagerie of the
everyday—reaffirm Can Xue's reputation as one of the most innovative
Chinese writers in a generation.
CAN XUE is a pseudonym meaning "dirty snow, leftover snow." She
learned English on her own and has written books on Borges,
Shakespeare, and Dante. Her publications in English include, _The
Embroidered Shoes_, _Five Spice Street_, and _Blue Light in the Sky_,
among others.
KAREN GERNANT is a professor emerita of Chinese history at Southern
Oregon University. She translates in collaboration with Chen Zeping.
CHEN ZEPING is a professor of Chinese linguistics at Fujian Teachers'
University, and has collaborated with Karen Gernant on more than ten
translations.
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ISBN
9781934824511
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
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Open Letter
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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