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“Sixteen dreamlike stories, translated from the Chinese, merge the physical and the philosophical.”—New York Times Book Review

Longlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Prose, sponsored by the American Literary Translators Association

“If China has one possibility of a Nobel laureate it is Can Xue.”—Susan Sontag

I Live in the Slums Stories

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    A Hardback by Can Xue Can Xue, Karen Gernant, Zeping Chen

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      Publisher Yale University Press
      Published 7 March 2020
      ISBN-13 9780300247435
      978-0300247435
      ISBN-10 0300247435

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      “Sixteen dreamlike stories, translated from the Chinese, merge the physical and the philosophical.”—New York Times Book Review

      Longlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Prose, sponsored by the American Literary Translators Association

      “If China has one possibility of a Nobel laureate it is Can Xue.”—Susan Sontag

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