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Author Canxue, 1953-

Title The last lover / Can Xue ; translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen.

Publication Info. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2014.
©2005

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  CANXUE    Check Shelf
Description 320 pages ; 20 cm.
Series A Margellos world republic of letters book
Margellos world republic of letters book.
Note "A Margellos World Republic of Letters book."
"Originally published in Chinese under the title Zuihou de qingren in 2005"--Title page verso.
Contents Joe and his books -- Mr. Reagan -- What happened on the Rubber Tree Plantation -- Kim's pasture -- Maria's interests -- Lisa's secrets -- Young Daniel -- Maria travels -- Ida's life in exile -- Reagan's difficulties -- Vincent visits the Gambling City -- Joe resolves to leave -- Joe arrives in the East -- Ida returns to the farm -- Vincent and the five Dragon Tower -- Lisa and Maria's long march.
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.
Subject Husband and wife -- Fiction.
Paramours -- Fiction.
Unrequited love -- Fiction.
FICTION -- Literary.
Husband and wife. (OCoLC)fst00964385
Paramours. (OCoLC)fst01739496
Unrequited love. (OCoLC)fst01162027
Genre/Form Romance fiction. (OCoLC)fst01921732
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Love stories.
Romance fiction.
Added Author Wasmoen, Annelise Finegan, 1981-
Added Title Zui hou de qing ren. English
ISBN 9780300153323 (paperback)
0300153325 (paperback)
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