9780300247435 - I Live in the Slums: Stories (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) de Can Xue (33 resultados)

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Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature Can Xues stories observe no obvious conventions of plot or characterization. That is the only rule they follow. Instead, they tend to limn a disordered and poetic state given structure by philosophical wonder and emotional rigor. Combining elements of both Chinese materialitythe love of physical thingsand 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 Xues newest collection shines a light on the forces that give contours to the visible terrain we acknowledge as reality. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Hardback. Condición: New. Longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize   A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature   "There's something inescapably cosmic about [Can Xue's] writing: the grandness of her vision, the abstraction of her thought, the way the details of lived reality seem to shrink and assume an equal significance, as though one were orbiting a distant star and peering down."-Bailey Trela, Los Angeles Review of Books   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 and poetic state given structure by philosophical wonder and emotional rigor.   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 newest collection shines a light on the forces that give contours to the visible terrain we acknowledge as reality.

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Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. translation edition. 331 pages. 8.00x5.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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Hardback. Condición: New. Longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize   A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature   "There's something inescapably cosmic about [Can Xue's] writing: the grandness of her vision, the abstraction of her thought, the way the details of lived reality seem to shrink and assume an equal significance, as though one were orbiting a distant star and peering down."-Bailey Trela, Los Angeles Review of Books   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 and poetic state given structure by philosophical wonder and emotional rigor.   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 newest collection shines a light on the forces that give contours to the visible terrain we acknowledge as reality.

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Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature Can Xues stories observe no obvious conventions of plot or characterization. That is the only rule they follow. Instead, they tend to limn a disordered and poetic state given structure by philosophical wonder and emotional rigor. Combining elements of both Chinese materialitythe love of physical thingsand 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 Xues newest collection shines a light on the forces that give contours to the visible terrain we acknowledge as reality. 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. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. First edition. First printing (with full number line including the 1). Hardcover. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. As a university-press publication, the dust jacket carries no printed price, as is typical for these editions. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean, pristine, unread copy. Octavo, 331 pages. Translated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping. "I Live in the Slums" presents sixteen surreal, metaphysical stories in which Can Xue blends the physical and the visionary to explore the shifting borders between reality, illusion, and consciousness. Can Xue, longlisted for the International Booker Prize and one of China's most experimental contemporary writers, is the author of Dialogues in Paradise (1989), Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas (1991), The Embroidered Shoes (1997), Blue Light in the Sky and Other Stories (2006), Five Spice Street (2009), Vertical Motion (2011), The Last Lover (2014), Frontier (2017), Love in the New Millennium (2018), I Live in the Slums: Stories (2020), and Purple Perilla (2021).

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature Can Xues stories observe no obvious conventions of plot or characterization. That is the only rule they follow. Instead, they tend to limn a disordered and poetic state given structure by philosophical wonder and emotional rigor. Combining elements of both Chinese materialitythe love of physical thingsand 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 Xues newest collection shines a light on the forces that give contours to the visible terrain we acknowledge as reality. 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. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Hardback. Condición: New. Longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize   A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature   "There's something inescapably cosmic about [Can Xue's] writing: the grandness of her vision, the abstraction of her thought, the way the details of lived reality seem to shrink and assume an equal significance, as though one were orbiting a distant star and peering down."-Bailey Trela, Los Angeles Review of Books   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 and poetic state given structure by philosophical wonder and emotional rigor.   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 newest collection shines a light on the forces that give contours to the visible terrain we acknowledge as reality.

Condición: New. &Uumlber den AutorCan Xue is the pseudonym of the renowned avant-garde author Deng Xiaohua. Her previous works include Five Spice Street, Vertical Motion, The Last Lover, Frontier, and Love in the N.