I Live in the Slums: Stories

by Can Xue

Book Overview

Longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize

A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature

"There's something inescapably cosmic about Can Xue's] 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300247435
• ISBN13: 9780300247435
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.2" x 7.8"