![]() ![]() A recounting of a fabulous town sinking into a pit of its own excrement. Yellow Mud Street, the first novella in the collection, is a revolting, beautiful, contradictory summation of life in the ditch. The critics love comparing it to this or that author, like Kafka and Bruno Schulz and Cortazar and others, but she is entirely in her own league in my opinion. They all partake of the same excruciatingly visceral style. ![]() ![]() She has published some 50 novellas, a few dozen stories and about 9 novels so far. A feverish, hyperactive geezer with a child's imagination. A titan of disjointed, haunting, sloppy elegance. Rising out of humble beginnings in China to become in the space of a decade, a force to be reckoned with in world literature. Can Xue is my favorite contender for the Nobel Prize. A rare scatological mosaic elevated to the highest levels of artistic expression. ![]()
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