Love in the New Millennium by Can Xue
Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019
The most ambitious work of fiction by one of the worlds greatest writers
In this dreamlike novel . . . amid increasingly bizarre scenarios, appearances give way to hidden, otherworldly layers.New Yorker
In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flower beds and conspiracies abound. Some try to fleewhether to a mysterious gambling bordello, underground ancestral homes, or Nest County, where traditional medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self.
Can Xues mesmerizing storytelling traces loves many guisessatirical, tragic, transient, lasting, nebulous, and fulfillingagainst a kaleidoscopic backdrop of commerce and industry, fraud and exploitation, and sex and romance drawn from the East and the West.
The most ambitious work of fiction by one of the worlds greatest writers
In this dreamlike novel . . . amid increasingly bizarre scenarios, appearances give way to hidden, otherworldly layers.New Yorker
In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flower beds and conspiracies abound. Some try to fleewhether to a mysterious gambling bordello, underground ancestral homes, or Nest County, where traditional medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self.
Can Xues mesmerizing storytelling traces loves many guisessatirical, tragic, transient, lasting, nebulous, and fulfillingagainst a kaleidoscopic backdrop of commerce and industry, fraud and exploitation, and sex and romance drawn from the East and the West.