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I Live In The Slums

I Live In The Slums

Can Xue, Karen Gernant (translation), Chen Zeping (translation)
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Can Xue’s enchanting collection is full of mystery & secrets, 16 dreamlike stories that create their own uniquely beautiful reality. Translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping.

I Live in the Slums combines elements of both Chinese materialities - the love of physical things - & Western abstract thinking. With this collection, Can Xue has created an immersive landscape that blends empirical fact and illusion, mixes the physical & spiritual, & probes the space between consciousness & unconsciousness. The stories bring readers to a place that is both readily familiar yet unmappable, highlighting the inherent unreliability in our relationship to the world around us.  Can Xue’s stories observe no obvious conventions of plot or characterization. That is the only rule they follow. Instead, they tend to limn a disordered & poetic state given structure by philosophical wonder & emotional rigour.

"For such a disorienting collection, filled with surreal imagery & graphic, Fauvist moments involving cannibalism & death, I Live in the Slums also feels sprinkled with curious intimations of tranquillity. During an arduous journey, Can Xue’s bumpy flight seems to glide to these sudden landings, depositing the reader safely back on Earth before pinging off again into the unknown. Perhaps, with the wink of an eye, proffering a hug." — Victoria Zhuang, Harvard University

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Can Xue is the pseudonym of the renowned avant‑garde author Deng XiaohuaCan Xue was longlisted for the 2019 Booker International Prize for Love in the New Millennium, translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen. Can Xue’s other work includes Five Spice Street, Vertical Motion, The Last Lover, Frontier & I Live in the Slums.

Year:
2020
Edition:
Translation
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
344
ISBN 10:
0300247435
ISBN 13:
9780300247435
Series:
International Booker Prize Longlist
File:
EPUB, 1.22 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2020
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