The Last Lover (Wasmoen Annelise Finegan)(Paperback) - diskuze

From the sensational Chinese author who has been called "a new world master," a Kafkaesque novel set in a fictional Western nation Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award for fiction, presented by Three Percent, a resource for international literature "[A] mind-bending novel. . . . Xue succeeds in creating a unique, immersive, tale of 'intersecting dreamworlds.'"--Publishers Weekly 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
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