Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019
The most ambitious work of fiction by one of the world’s 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 flee—whether to a mysterious gambling bordello, underground ancestral homes, or Nest County, where traditional medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self.
Can Xue’s mesmerizing storytelling traces love’s many guises—satirical, tragic, transient, lasting, nebulous, and fulfilling—against a kaleidoscopic backdrop of commerce and industry, fraud and exploitation, and sex and romance drawn from the East and the West.
基本信息 出版社 : Yale University Press (2018年 11月 20日) 语言 : 英语 精装 : 288页 ISBN-10 : 0300224311 ISBN-13 : 978-0300224313 商品重量 : 544 g 尺寸 : 23.37 x 16 x 2.54 cm
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