Bibliograph

Frontier, Can Xue ; translated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant & Chen Zeping ; introduction by Porochista Khakpour

Type

Label

Frontier, Can Xue ; translated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant & Chen Zeping ; introduction by Porochista Khakpour

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Frontier

Oclc number

945948875

Responsibility statement

Can Xue ; translated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant & Chen Zeping ; introduction by Porochista Khakpour

Summary

"Frontier opens with the story of Liujin, a young woman heading out on her own to create her own life in Pebble Town, a somewhat surreal place at the base of Snow Mountain where wolves roam the streets and certain enlightened individuals can see and enter a paradisiacal garden. Exploring life in this city (or in the frontier) through the viewpoint of a dozen different characters, some simple, some profound, Can Xue's latest novel attempts to unify the grand opposites of life--barbarism and civilization, the spiritual and the material, the mundane and the sublime, beauty and death, Eastern and Western cultures."--, Provided by publisher

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