Frontier

One of the most raved about works of translated fiction this year Jonathan Sturgeon, Flavorwire 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.A layered, multifaceted masterpiece from the 2015 winner of the Best Translated Book Award, Frontier exemplifies John Darnielle s statement that Can Xue s books read as if dreams had invaded the physical world Can Xue is a pseudonym meaning dirty snow, leftover snow She learned English on her own and has written books on Borges, Shakespeare, and Dante Her publications in English include The Embroidered Shoes, Five Spice Street, Vertical Motion, and The Last Lover, which won the 2015 Best Translated Book Award for Fiction.Karen Gernant is a professor emerita of Chinese history at Southern Oregon University She translates in collaboration with Chen Zeping.Chen Zeping is a professor of Chinese linguistics at Fujian Teachers University, and has collaborated with Karen Gernant on than ten translations. Best Download Frontier Author Can Xue For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Can Xue imagine s an airtight surreal alt real populated by headless men, wolves and geckos, shifting mountains, and a Design Institute that serves no real function In Frontier, China s premier writer of the avant garde, an experimental trickster Porochista Khakpour creates a striking sequence of happenings in the lives various unusuals, foremost of whom is the wild Liujin Xue calls her style material writing , and takes our Great Nature, especially our dark Earth Mother , as her sub Can Xue imagine s an airtight surreal alt real populated by headless men, wolves ...Huh.Reading Frontier is a bit like watching a very large polaroid form its image slowly over a very extended period of time At first all is fuzzy The people in the picture, and the events surrounding them, seem like arbitrary blurs with little connection or resolution Over the course of the novel, these shape...R Can Xue is not an easy read, not because her language or concepts are difficult but because she challenges what is expected in narrative form and structure I have a detailed review published at Numero Cinq SeeI ve held off writing this review for a day, hoping it would become clearer to me how to describe this book But alas nothing has struck me as comprehensible Perhaps that s to be expected, as ultimately I did not find this novel to be comprehensible, at least in any way I would normally describe a novel Many reviewers turn to the quote from John Darnielle on the back of the book Can Xue s books read as if dreams had invaded the physical world It is an excellent description of how the b I ve held off writing this review for a day, hoping it would become clearer to me how to describe this book But alas nothing has struck me as comprehensible Perhaps that s to be expected, as ultimately I did not find this novel to be comprehensible, at least in any way I would normally describe a novel Many reviewers turn to the quote from John Darnielle on the back of the book Can Xue s books read as if dreams had invaded the physical world It is an excellent description of how the...Imagine that the show Twin Peaks was a 64 year old Chinese woman who was sitting next to you in your booth at a mescaline club in an alternate reality, and you would have Frontier.The author, Can Xue a clever pseudonym which means dirty, leftover snow , is actually a 64 year old Chinese woman and very well might be from an alternate reality Or at least writes from one right at you.This is a work of the kind of weird, headlong, heady genius that most people would sniff at For instance, i Imagine that the show Twin Peaks was a 64 year old Chinese woman who was sitting next to you in your booth at a mescaline club in an alternate reality, and you would have Frontier.The author, Can Xue a clever pseudonym which means dirty, leftover snow , is actually a 64 year old Chinese woman and very well might be from an alternate reality Or at least writes from one right at you.This is a work of the kind of weird, headlong, heady genius...I think I just wasn t in the right mood for this book As far as I could tell after reading the first 50 pages or so, it s got a kind of serious whimsy an oxymoron that means something to me, at least that I could have liked For example, character names Why are two Chinese characters named Nancy and Juan, but the others have Chinese language names This strikes me as the kind of book that wouldn t explain that it just is what it is You don t read this book for a plot you just let the c I think I just wasn t in the right mood for this book As far as I could tell after reading the first 50 pages or so, it s got a kind of serious whimsy an oxymoron that mean...Pseudonymously named Can Xue the name means dirty snow or leftover snow and apparently invokes pejorative language used in China to denigrate the kind of experimental fiction she writes writes the mystical That is to say that the mystical is her subject, and that she seems so enmeshed in the mystical that she herself becomes expressed i... Frontier is set in a small town with long roads, freely moving wild animals and people who build a strange symbiotic relationship with the nature and the town itself Can Xue weaves a surreal story set in a time and space unlike the one we live in The town sits on a frontier expanding to a dense forest on one side and a snowy mountain on the other A design institute takes up half the town with houses, gardens, shops dotting around it The foot traffic in this town is less and gives the appeara Frontier is set in a small town with long roads, freely moving wild animals and people who build a strange symbiotic relationship with the nature and the town itself Can Xue weaves a surreal story set in a time and space unlike the one we live in The town sits on a frontier expanding to a dense forest on one side and a snowy mountain on the other A design institute takes up half the town with houses, gardens, shops dotting around it The foot ... Frontier is an experimental novel by Chinese writer Can Xue set in on the northern border in Pebble Town, an odd city dominated by the mysterious Design Institute Each chapter follows a different character or group of characters, but the story centers on Liujin, a woman living on her own since her parents retired to Smo...

• English
• 21 December 2018
Can Xue
• Paperback
• 361 pages
• 1940953545
• Can Xue
• Frontier