| Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas Translated Edition Contributor(s): Zhang, Jian (Translator), Innes, Charlotte (Foreword by), Janssen, Ronald R. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0810109883 ISBN-13: 9780810109889 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 91-19942 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 8.9" (1.50 lbs) 269 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Can Xue draws the reader into a world of the grotesque and the surreal, of uncertain spaces and indeterminate identities, of sexual menace and psychological disorientation. These novellas are about life in post-Mao China, but not the China of social realism or of Western fantasy. At the forefront of China's new literary trends, these two novellas--Yellow Mud Street and Old Floating Cloud--explore Chinese reality through images of the absurd, sudden and illogical juxtapositions, and the limitless transformations induced by a unique imagination. |