I Live in the Slums

Name: I Live in the Slums
Brand: Yale University Press

Yale University Press

I Live in the SlumsStories\nAuthor(s): Can Xue, Karen Gernant, Zeping Chen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Yale University Press, United States\nImprint: Yale University Press\nISBN-13: 9780300247435, 978-0300247435\nSynopsis\nLonglisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize\n A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature\n Theres 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 [url] Trela, Los Angeles Review of Books\n Can 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.\n Combining elements of both Chinese materialitythe love of phy.