num_pages: 173
description: The thirteen stories of Dialogues in Paradise are eloquent in a way the West associates with both the modern and the ancient: the dark oracles of Aeschylus and Sophocles, the paranoid mystery of Kafka, the moving stream of Woolf. The work of Can Xue (a pseudonym of Changsa writer Deng Xiao-hua) renews our consciousness of the long tradition of the irrational in our literature, where dreams and reality constitute one territory, its borders open, the passage back and forth barely discernible. She fuses lyrical purity with the darkest visions of the grotesque and the result is a unique literary experience.
language: English
title: Dialogues in Paradise
titlecomplete: Dialogues in Paradise
genres: Fiction, Asia, Short Stories, Utopia, China, Literature, Asian Literature, Short Story Collection, Literary Fiction, Chinese Literature
ratings_count: 148
publisher: Northwestern University Press