I live in the slums : stories
Canxue, 1953-2020
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Combining elements of both Chinese materiality - the love of physical things - and Western abstract thinking, Can Xue invites her readers into an immersive landscape that blends empirical fact and illusion, mixes the physical and spiritual, and probes the space between consciousness and oblivion. She brings us to a place that is both readily familiar yet unmappable and can make us hyperaware of the inherent unreliability in our relationship to the world around us. Delightful, enchanting, and filled with secrets, Can Xue's collection shines a light on the forces that give contours to the visible terrain we acknowledge as reality.
I live in the slums : stories / Can Xue ; translated by Karen Gernant, Zeping Chen.
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020.New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020.
344 pages ; 20 cm.
Translated from the Chinese.
9780300247435 (hbk)
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