Love in the New Millennium
Can Xue author Annelise Finegan Wasmoen translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Yale University Press
Published:23rd Apr '24
£11.99
Available for immediate dispatch.
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.
“In this dreamlike novel . . . amid increasingly bizarre scenarios, appearances give way to hidden, otherworldly layers.”—New Yorker
“I typed this review in one go in 30 minutes or so, and it’s not often I’m this enthused to share as much about a book after finishing. I think it attests to the novel’s greatness.”—Tommi Laine, Literary Noise
Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019
Best Translated Book Award long list finalist in the Fiction category, sponsored by Three Percent
Shortlisted for the Internationaler Literaturpreis 2022, sponsored by Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Foundation Elementarteilchen
“Love in the New Millennium is, as always with Can Xue’s work, a marvel. She is one of the most innovative and important contemporary writers in China and, in my opinion, in world literature.”—Bradford Morrow, author of The Prague Sonata
Praise for Can Xue:
“There’s a new world master among us, and her name is Can Xue.”—Robert Coover
“If China has one possibility of a Nobel laureate it is Can Xue.”—Susan Sontag
- Long-listed for Man Booker International Prize 2019 (UK)
ISBN: 9780300278262
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
288 pages