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I live in the slums : stories
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Title
I live in the slums : stories / Can Xue ; translated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping.
ISBN
9780300247435
0300247435
Publication
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]
Physical Description
331 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes
In English, translated from the Chinese.
Summary
Combining elements of both Chinese materiality--the love of physical things--and Western abstract thinking, Can Xue's stories invite her readers into an immersive landscape that blends reality and illusion, mixes the physical and spiritual, and probes the space between consciousness and unconsciousness.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 29, 2020
Series
Margellos world republic of letters book
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Story of the slums
Our human neighbors
The old cicada
The swamp
Sin
The other side of the partition
Shadow people
Crow Mountain
Catfish pit
Euphoria
Lu-er's worries
Her old home
I am a willow tree
The outsiders
The queen
Venus.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Short stories.
Translations.
Short stories.
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