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003    OCoLC 
005    20231106190237.0 
008    140107t20142005ctu           000 1 eng   
010      2013048362 
015    GBB450172|2bnb 
016 7  016713656|2Uk 
020    9780300153323|q(paperback) 
020    0300153325|q(paperback) 
035    (OCoLC)862098500 
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041 1  eng|hchi 
042    pcc 
049    MCPL 
050 00 PL2912.A5174|bZ45513 2014 
082 00 895.13/52|223 
084    FIC019000|2bisacsh 
100 0  Canxue,|d1953- 
240 10 Zui hou de qing ren.|lEnglish 
245 14 The last lover /|cCan Xue ; translated by Annelise Finegan
       Wasmoen. 
264  1 New Haven ;|aLondon :|bYale University Press,|c2014. 
264  4 |c©2005 
300    320 pages ;|c20 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  A Margellos world republic of letters book 
500    "A Margellos World Republic of Letters book." 
500    "Originally published in Chinese under the title Zuihou de
       qingren in 2005"--Title page verso. 
505 0  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. 
520    "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"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Husband and wife|vFiction. 
650  0 Paramours|vFiction. 
650  0 Unrequited love|vFiction. 
650  7 FICTION|xLiterary.|2bisacsh 
650  7 Husband and wife.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00964385 
650  7 Paramours.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01739496 
650  7 Unrequited love.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01162027 
655  7 Romance fiction.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01921732 
655  7 Fiction.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423787 
655  7 Love stories.|2gsafd 
655  7 Romance fiction.|2lcgft 
700 1  Wasmoen, Annelise Finegan,|d1981- 
830  0 Margellos world republic of letters book. 
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994    C0|bMCP