β Boothby, J
π Fiction
π
2020
π Flying Walrus, Ltd
π English
β 120 KB
β¦ LIBER β¦
The Last Lover
β Scribed by Can Xue
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 201 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0300153325
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β¦ Synopsis
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...
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