| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
The Margellos World Republic of Letters |
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Margellos world republic of letters book.
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| Note |
"Originally published in Chinese under the title Zuihou de qingren in 2005"--Title page verso. |
| Summary |
"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 deserts and snowcapped mountains, the author creates an extreme world where every character "is driving death away with a singular performance." Who is the last lover? The novel is bursting with vividly drawn characters. Among them are Joe, sales manager of a clothing company in an unnamed Western country, and his wife, Maria, who conducts mystical experiments with the household's cats and rosebushes. Joe's customer Reagan is having an affair with Ida, a worker at his rubber plantation, while clothing-store owner Vincent runs away from his wife in pursuit of a woman in black who disappears over and over again. By the novel's end, we have accompanied these characters on a long march, a naive, helpless, and forsaken search for love, because there are just some things that can't be stopped--or helped"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Husband and wife -- Fiction.
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Paramours -- Fiction.
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Unrequited love -- Fiction.
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FICTION -- Literary.
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FICTION -- General.
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Husband and wife. (OCoLC)fst00964385
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Paramours. (OCoLC)fst01739496
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Unrequited love. (OCoLC)fst01162027
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Love stories.
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| Added Author |
Wasmoen, Annelise Finegan, 1981- translator.
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| Added Title |
Zui hou de qing ren. English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Canxue, 1953- Zui hou de qing ren. English. Last lover. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2014 9780300153323 (DLC) 2013048362 (OCoLC)862098500 |
| ISBN |
9780300206883 (electronic bk.) |
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0300206887 (electronic bk.) |
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