Love in the New Millennium Xue CanPevná vazba
The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China today "In this dreamlike novel . . . amid increasingly bizarre scenarios, appearances give…
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The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China today "In this dreamlike novel . . . amid increasingly bizarre scenarios, appearances give way to hidden, otherworldly layers."--New YorkerIn 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 bordello or to ancestral homes that can be reached only underground through muddy caves, sewers, and tunnels. Others seek out the refuge of Nest County, where traditional Chinese herbal medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self. Each life is circumscribed by buried secrets and transcendent delusions.Can Xue's masterful