{"product_id":"9780300278262","title":"Love in the New Millennium","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Can Xue \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eLiterature: history \u0026amp; criticism\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 23 April 2024 by YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS in the United States as part of 'The Margellos World Republic of Letters' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 288 pages, 1 b-w illus.\u003cbr\u003e230 x 150 x 20 | 346g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLonglisted 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Darling Reads","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48374319120708,"sku":"9780300278262","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/1265\/8244\/files\/accd7b4d5cf5ebf7f0465df31759bca9.png?v=1752766350","url":"https:\/\/darlingreadsbooks.pro\/products\/9780300278262","provider":"Darling Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}