Love in the New Millennium

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019

The most ambitious work of fiction by one of the world’s greatest writers

\”In this dreamlike novel . . . amid increasingly bizarre scenarios, appearances give way to hidden, otherworldly layers.\”
-New Yorker

In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flower beds and conspiracies abound. Some try to flee-whether to a mysterious gambling bordello, underground ancestral homes, or Nest County, where traditional medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self.

Can Xue’s mesmerizing storytelling traces love’s many guises-satirical, tragic, transient, lasting, nebulous, and fulfilling-against a kaleidoscopic backdrop of commerce and industry, fraud and exploitation, and sex and romance drawn from the East and the West.

Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Imprint: Yale U P
Publication date: 01/07/2024
Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters