Description
In this collection, Can Xue builds a dreamlike, destabilizing world where everyday spaces behave like hallucinations—apartments float high above the ground, and strange presences move through rooms with the logic of a fever. Across interconnected stories, an ageless uncle living on the twenty-fourth floor is visited by a nephew whose perceptions shift as he tries to understand what he’s seeing, while other figures—oddly scaled and eerily vivid—loom at the edges of ordinary life. With her signature blend of surreal imagery and unsettling intimacy, Xue turns the act of looking inward into a kind of motion: identity, memory, and reality slide out of alignment. Vertical Motion explores alienation, transformation, and the fragile boundary between perception and truth, inviting readers to follow the stories as they rise, drift, and refuse to settle.
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paperback
Open Letter
Published Jan 1, 2011
186 pages
ISBN: 9781934824375
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First Published
2011
Language
chi
Translation
From: chi
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