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I Live In The Slums: Stories (The Margellos World Republic Of Letters)
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Longlisted For The 2021 International Booker Prizea Major New Collection Of Stories By One Of The Most Exciting And Creative Voices In Contemporary Chinese Literaturetheres Something Inescapably Cosmic About [Can Xues] 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 Bookscan 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.
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