Description
| Product ID: | 9781940953540 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Frontier |
| Authors: | Author: Can Xue, Karen Gernant, Chen Zeping |
| Page Count: | 470 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation, Fiction in translation |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A surreal coming-of-age novel that blends Eastern and Western beliefs, from the winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award. 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 enter a paradisiacal garden. Exploring life in this city through the viewpoint of a dozen different characters, 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Open Letter |
| Publisher Name: | Open Letter |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-03-30 |