Love in the New Millennium
ISBN: PB: 9780300278262,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019
The most ambitious work of fiction by one of the world's greatest writers.
In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the...
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11.99 GBP
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Barefoot Doctor
A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9780300274035,
ISBN: HB: 9780300259636,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
272 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm
272 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm
A profound, poignant story of a village healer and her community, from one of the world's great contemporary novelists.
In rural Yun Village, herbalist Mrs. Yi lives with her husband in a cottage at the foot of Niulan Mountain, where she gathers he...
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11.99 GBP
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18.99 GBP
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I Live in the Slums
Stories
ISBN: HB: 9780300247435,
Yale University Press,
July 2020
344 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm
344 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm
In Can Xue's world the superficial is peeled away to reveal layers of depth and meaning. Her stories observe no conventions of plot or characterization and limn a chaotic, poetic state ordered by the extreme logic of philosophy.
Combining elements...
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22.50 GBP
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Last Lover
ISBN: PB: 9780300153323,
Yale University Press,
July 2014
352 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
352 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
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 guess...
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14.99 GBP
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Five Spice Street
ISBN: PB: 9780300167962,
Yale University Press,
June 2012
352 pp., 20,3x12,7 cm
352 pp., 20,3x12,7 cm
"Five Spice Street" is a novel about 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. Som...
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