Love in the New Millennium

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.

Author: Can Xue
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 03/05/2024
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.06w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780300278262
ISBN10: 0300278268
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Women

About the Author
Can Xue is the pseudonym of the Chinese writer Deng Xiaohua (b. 1953). Formerly a tailor, she began writing fiction in 1983. Her works include Barefoot Doctor, Five Spice Street, The Last Lover, and I Live in the Slums. Annelise Finegan Wasmoen is academic director and clinical associate professor of translation at NYU School of Professional Studies. Eileen Myles is a poet, novelist, and art journalist whose books include For Now, Chelsea Girls, and Evolution.