Five Spice Street Xue CanPaperback
Five Spice Street Xue CanPaperback "Five Spice Street" is a novel about a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. Some think X is 50 years old;…
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Five Spice Street Xue CanPaperback
"Five Spice Street" is a novel about a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. Some think X is 50 years old; others that she is 22. The novel interweaves their endless suppositions into a work that is at once political parable and surreal fantasia.
Who is Madam X? Some believe she has occult powers and has thereby enslaved the young men of the street; others think she is a common trickster playing mind games with the common people. How has she brought the good people of Five Spice Street to their knees either in worship or in exasperation?
The unknown narrator takes no sides in the endless dialectic of visions, arguments, and opinions. The investigation rages, the street becomes a Walpurgisnacht of speculations, fantasies, and prejudices. Madam X is a vehicle whereby the people bare their souls, through whom they reveal themselves even as they try to penetrate the mystery of her extraordinary powers.
"Five Spice Street" is one of the most astonishing novels of the past twenty years.Exploring the collective consciousness of this little street of ordinary people, Can Xue penetrates the deepest existential anxieties of the present day, whether in China or in the West, where the inevitable impermanence of identity struggles with the narrative within which identity must compose itself.
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