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Barefoot Doctor by CAN XUE
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A profound, poignant story of a village healer and her community, from one of the world’s great contemporary novelists In rural Yun Village, herbalist Mrs. Yi lives with her husband in a cottage at the foot of Niulan Mountain, where she gathers herbs to treat the ailments of the villagers by day and st ...Show more
Barefoot Doctor by Can Xue
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A profound, poignant story of a village healer and her community, from one of the world's great contemporary novelists "A complex and illuminating portrait of a group of healers in China . . . [that] offers profound insights about what it means to pursue and live a fulfilling life."-Publishers Weekly ...Show more
Blue Light in the Sky and Other Stories by Zeping Chen; Karen Gernant; Can Xue
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A selection of harsh, sometimes violent, and often surreal stories by the premier young avant-garde Chinese woman writer. A couple moves with their young daughter to the seaside, only to be terrorized by hostile townsfolk, predatory seabirds, and the persistent sound of the waves. Two old friends spend ...Show more
Dialogues in Paradise by Ronald R. Janssen (Translator); Jian Zhang (Translator); Xue Can
$50.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The thirteen stories of Dialogues in Paradise are eloquent in a way the West associates with both the modern and the ancient: the dark oracles of Aeschylus and Sophocles, the paranoid mystery of Kafka, the moving stream of Woolf. The work of Can Xue (a pseudonym of Changsa writer Deng Xiao-hua) renews ...Show more
Mystery Train by Can Xue; Natascha Bruce (Translator)
$34.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A chicken-farm employee named Scratch, sent by his manager to buy feed, has boarded the right train. Hasn't he? So what if the destination on the ticket is wrong, or if he's locked in his compartment, or if the lights are off and it's suddenly freezing cold? And surely the whispers of a pending accident ...Show more
The Last Lover by Can Xue
$30.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
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 ...Show more
Vertical Motion by Can Xue
$31.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Two young girls sneak into the grounds of a hospital where they find a disturbing moment of silence in a rose garden. A couple grows a plant that blooms underground, invisibly, to their neighbour's consternation. A cat worries about its sleepwalking owner, who recieves a mysterious visitor while he is a ...Show more
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