Description
In these sharply observed Chinese short stories, Canxue blends the everyday with the uncanny, turning ordinary lives into strange, vivid dramas of body, desire, and survival. From a doctor who sleeps in a cistern like a hippo to a wife whose violence leaves her husband hospitalized with a stomach full of needles, the collection moves with dark humor and unsettling imagination. Other stories follow characters shaped by physical limitation and relentless routine, revealing how rest, pain, and endurance can become their own forms of freedom. Across the book, themes of cruelty and care, the fragility of the human body, and the private logic of obsession come into focus through Canxue’s distinctive, lyrical, and often surreal style.
Available Editions
paperback
Henry Holt
Published Jan 1, 1997
221 pages
ISBN: 9780805054132
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Details
First Published
1997
Language
chi
Translation
From: chi
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Embroidered Shoes by Can Xue.