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Can Xue


China (b.1953)

Formerly a tailor by trade, Can Xue (whose real name is Deng Xiao-hua) only began writing fiction seriously in 1983. Can Xue (translated as "the dirty snow that refuses to melt") prolifically writes avant-garde short stories, novellas, novels, and critical commentaries on writers who have influenced her Gothic magic, such as Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, and Dante.

Her first Chinese work was published in 1985 while the English translation of Dialogues in Paradise, Can Xue's first collection of lyrical stories, appeared in 1989, followed by two novellas, Old Floating Cloud in 1991 and The Embroidered Shoes Collection of stories in 1997.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
January 2025

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Mother River
 
Novels
   Five Spice Street (2009)
   The Last Lover (2014)
   Frontier (2017)
   Love in the New Millennium (2018)
   Barefoot Doctor (2022)
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Collections
   Dialogues in Paradise (1989)
   Old Floating Cloud (1991)
   The Embroidered Shoes (1997)
   Blue Light in the Sky (2006)
   Vertical Motion (2011)
   I Live in the Slums (2020)
   Mother River (2025)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Mystery Train (2022)
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Anthologies containing stories by Can Xue
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40x40 (2003)
(Conjunctions, book 40)
edited by
Bradford Morrow

Awards
International Booker Prize Best Book nominee (2019) : Love in the New Millennium


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