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Barefoot Doctor by CAN XUE
Category: Fiction
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 herbs to treat the ailments of the villagers by day and st ...Show more
Home for Chinese New Year (Chinese & English) by Wei Jie; Xue Can (Illustrator)
Category: PICTURE BOOKS
The Chinese New Year is a time for family reunions. In both English and Chinese, this book tells the story of a delightful family trip with lots of cultural details along the way! Full color. 9 5/16 x 9.
I Live in the Slums by Can Can Xue; Karen Gernant (Translator); Zeping Chen (Translator)
Category: Short Stories | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature Can Xue's stories observe no obvious conventions of plot or characterization. That is the only rule they follow. Instead, they tend to limn a disordered and poetic state given structu ...Show more
Love in the New Millennium by Can Xue; Annelise Finegan Wasmoen; Eileen Myles
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China todayIn 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 th ...Show more
The Last Lover by Can Xue
Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
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 guessing games.” Their journeys reveal the deepest realms ...Show more
Vertical Motion by Can Xue
Category: Fiction
Two young girls sneak into 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 neighbour's consternation. A cat worries about its sleepwalking owner, who recieves a mysterious visitor while he is a ...Show more
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