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020    9780300206883|q(electronic bk.) 
020    0300206887|q(electronic bk.) 
035    (OCoLC)884264189 
040    N$T|beng|erda|epn|cN$T|dOCLCO|dTEFOD|dOCLCF|dTEFOD|dYDXCP
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041 1  eng|hchi 
049    GTKE 
050  4 PL2912.A5174|bZ45513 2014eb 
082 04 895.13/52|223 
100 0  Canxue,|d1953-|eauthor. 
240 10 Zui hou de qing ren.|lEnglish 
245 14 The last lover /|cCan Xue ; translated by Annelise Finegan
       Wasmoen. 
264  1 New Haven :|bYale University Press,|c2014. 
264  4 |c©2014 
300    1 online resource. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
490 1  The Margellos World Republic of Letters 
500    "Originally published in Chinese under the title Zuihou de
       qingren in 2005"--Title page verso. 
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. 
588 0  Print version record. 
650  0 Husband and wife|vFiction. 
650  0 Paramours|vFiction. 
650  0 Unrequited love|vFiction. 
650  7 FICTION|xLiterary.|2bisacsh 
650  7 FICTION|xGeneral.|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 Fiction.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423787 
655  7 Love stories.|2gsafd 
700 1  Wasmoen, Annelise Finegan,|d1981-|etranslator. 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aCanxue, 1953-|sZui hou de qing ren. 
       English.|tLast lover.|dNew Haven ; London : Yale 
       University Press, 2014|z9780300153323|w(DLC)  2013048362
       |w(OCoLC)862098500 
830  0 Margellos world republic of letters book. 
914    ocn884264189 
994    92|bGTK