Five Spice Street by Can Xue

Five Spice Street by Can Xue

A novel about a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. It interweaves their endless suppositions into a work that is at once political parable and surreal fantasia.

Shortlisted for the 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature given by World Literature Today

“[Five Spice Street is] an absolutely hilarious, pseudo-journalistic account of a scandalous affair in a small neighborhood in China”—James Hannaham in a NYTimes.com interview


“There’s no other writer in China like Can Xue . . . strange, surreal, and very compelling . . . [and] this novel is probably the best place to start.”—Chad Post, Publishers Weekly -- Chad Post * Publishers Weekly *

Can Xue is the pseudonym of Deng Xiaohua, author of many novels and short works of fiction in Chinese. She lives in Beijing.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780300167962
ISBN 10	0300167962
Title	Five Spice Street
Author	Can Xue
Series	The Margellos World Republic Of Letters
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Yale University Press
Year published	2012-04-24
Number of pages	352
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.