Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas - Softcover

Xue Can (author), Jian Zhang (Translated By), Ronald R. Janssen (Translated By) & Charlotte Innes (Foreword By)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810109883 ISBN 13: 9780810109889

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1991

Synopsis

Can Xue draws the reader into a world of the grotesque and the surreal, of uncertain spaces and indeterminate identities, of sexual menace and psychological disorientation. These novellas are about life in post-Mao China, but not the China of social realism or of Western fantasy. At the forefront of China's new literary trends, these two novellas—"Yellow Mud Street" and "Old Floating Cloud"—explore Chinese reality through images of the absurd, sudden and illogical juxtapositions, and the limitless transformations induced by a unique imagination.

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About the Author

CAN XUE (the pseudonym of Deng Xiao-hua) was born in Changsha, Hunan Province, China in 1953. She has twice been longlisted for the International Booker Prize, and is the author of Dialogues in Paradise and Old Floating Cloud, among many others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810109883
• ISBN 13: 9780810109889
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 885