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A profound, poignant story of a village healer and her community, from one of the world's great contemporary novelists

A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature

The most ambitious work of fiction by one of the world's greatest writers

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.

In a Kafkaesque novel set in a fictional Western nation, husbands, wives and lovers are entwined in complicated, often tortuous relationships as they, stepping in and out of each other's fantasies, explore the deepest realms of human desire. Original.

A novel about a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. It interweaves their endless suppositions into a work that is at once political parable and surreal fantasia.