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Description for Five Spice Street
Paperback. A novel about a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. It interweaves their endless suppositions into a work that is at once political parable and surreal fantasia. Translator(s): Gernant, Karen; Chen, Zeping. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 192 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 330.
The first full-length novel by Chinese author Can Xue to appear in English
“There’s no other writer in China like Can Xue . . . strange, surreal, and very compelling . . . [and] this novel is probably the best place to start.”—Chad Post, Publishers Weekly
Five Spice Street tells the story of a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. The novel interweaves their endless suppositions into a work that is at once political parable and surreal fantasia. Some think X is 50 years old, ... Read more
The first full-length novel by Chinese author Can Xue to appear in English
“There’s no other writer in China like Can Xue . . . strange, surreal, and very compelling . . . [and] this novel is probably the best place to start.”—Chad Post, Publishers Weekly
Five Spice Street tells the story of a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. The novel interweaves their endless suppositions into a work that is at once political parable and surreal fantasia. Some think X is 50 years old, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300167962
SKU
V9780300167962
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About Can Xue
Can Xue is the pseudonym of Deng Xiaohua, author of many novels and short works of fiction in Chinese. She lives in Beijing.
Reviews for Five Spice Street
Shortlisted for the 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature given by World Literature Today “[Five Spice Street is] an absolutely hilarious, pseudo-journalistic account of a scandalous affair in a small neighborhood in China.”—James Hannaham in a NYTimes.com interview “There’s no other writer in China like Can Xue . . . strange, surreal, and very compelling . . . [and] ... Read more