Frontier
By: Can Xue ; translated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant & Chen Zeping ; introduction by Porochista Khakpour
Contributors: Gernant, Karen, translator; Chen, Zeping, 1953- translator; Khakpour, Porochista, writer of introduction
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9781940953540
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Culture; Civilization; Spiritual life; Fiction
Work titles: Bian jiang
Description: "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."--