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Currently Reading: Love in the New Millennium

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Love in the New Millennium by Can Xue translated from the Chinese by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen November 20, 2018 Yale University Press   From the publisher: “In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flower beds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in

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Review: Frontier by Can Xue

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translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping Open Letter Books March 14, 2017 470 pages   In a surreal/unreal place called “Pebble Town” live men, women, and children for whom such concepts as time and geographical location seem meaningless.  “Frontier”, then, is quite the appropriate title, given that this particular word conjures up images of

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