The last lover /

The last lover /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Canxue, 1953-
Uniform title:	Zui hou de qing ren. English
Imprint:	New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2014. ©2005
Description:	320 pages ; 20 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	A Margellos world republic of letters book Margellos world republic of letters book.
Subject:	Husband and wife -- Fiction. Paramours -- Fiction. Unrequited love -- Fiction. Husband and wife. Paramours. Unrequited love. Fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10138054

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Other authors / contributors:	Wasmoen, Annelise Finegan, 1981-
ISBN:	9780300153323 (pbk.) 0300153325 (pbk.)
Notes:	"A Margellos World Republic of Letters book." "Originally published in Chinese under the title Zuihou de qingren in 2005"--Verso title page.
Summary:	"In Can Xue's extraordinary book, we encounter a full assemblage of husbands, wives, and lovers. Entwined in complicated, often tortuous relationships, these characters step into each other's fantasies, carrying on conversations that are "forever guessing games." Their journeys reveal the deepest realms of human desire, figured in Can Xue's vision of snakes and wasps, crows, cats, mice, earthquakes, and landslides. In dive bars and twisted city streets, on deserts and snowcapped mountains, the author creates an extreme world where every character "is driving death away with a singular performance." Who is the last lover? The novel is bursting with vividly drawn characters. Among them are Joe, sales manager of a clothing company in an unnamed Western country, and his wife, Maria, who conducts mystical experiments with the household's cats and rosebushes. Joe's customer Reagan is having an affair with Ida, a worker at his rubber plantation, while clothing-store owner Vincent runs away from his wife in pursuit of a woman in black who disappears over and over again. By the novel's end, we have accompanied these characters on a long march, a naive, helpless, and forsaken search for love, because there are just some things that can't be stopped--or helped"--

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Summary:	From the sensational Chinese author who has been called "a new world master," a Kafkaesque novel set in a fictional Western nation <br> <br> <br> <br> Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award for fiction, presented by Three Percent, a resource for international literature <br> <br> <br> <br> "[A] mind-bending novel. . . . Xue succeeds in creating a unique, immersive, tale of 'intersecting dreamworlds.'"-- Publishers Weekly <br> <br> <br> <br> In Can Xue's extraordinary book, we encounter a full assemblage of husbands, wives, and lovers. Entwined in complicated, often tortuous relationships, these characters step into each other's fantasies, carrying on conversations that are "forever guessing games." Their journeys reveal the deepest realms of human desire, figured in Can Xue's vision of snakes and wasps, crows, cats, mice, earthquakes, and landslides. In dive bars and twisted city streets, on deserts and snowcapped mountains, the author creates an extreme world where every character "is driving death away with a singular performance."<br> <br> <br> <br> Who is the last lover? The novel is bursting with vividly drawn characters. Among them are Joe, sales manager of a clothing company in an unnamed Western country, and his wife, Maria, who conducts mystical experiments with the household's cats and rosebushes. Joe's customer Reagan is having an affair with Ida, a worker at his rubber plantation, while clothing-store owner Vincent runs away from his wife in pursuit of a woman in black who disappears over and over again. By the novel's end, we have accompanied these characters on a long march, a naive, helpless, and forsaken search for love, because there are just some things that can't be stopped--or helped.
Item Description:	"A Margellos World Republic of Letters book." "Originally published in Chinese under the title Zuihou de qingren in 2005"--Verso title page.
Physical Description:	320 pages ; 20 cm.
ISBN:	9780300153323 0300153325