“A maverick outsider, the Chinese writer Can Xue described herself in a recent interview as ‘an experimental novelist with a strongly philosophical temperament.’ True enough, but nothing in that bland label would prepare you for the mind-stretching enchantments of The Last Lover, one of the first of her large-scale works to appear in English. . . . Translated by Annelise ... Read moreFinegan Wasmoen with all the hallucinatory clarity that her prose demands, Can Xue guides us through that bewitching place.”—Boyd Tonkin, The Independent Book of the Year for 2014, chosen by The Independent Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award, fiction category, organized by Three Percent Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015, given by Booktrust Longlisted for the 2015 American Literary Translators Asssociation, National Translation Prize in Prose. &ldquot;If China has one possibility of a Nobel laureate it is Can Xue.”—Susan Sontag Show Less