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<p>Thic Collection includes&#58; The Gloomy Mood of Ah Mei on a Sunny Day Raindrops in the Crevice between the Tiles Soap Bubbles in Dirty Water The Fog Hut on the Mountain Dream of the Yellow Chrysanthemum The Ox In the Wilderness The Things that Happened to Me in that World The Date Skylight The Instant when the Cuckoo Sings Sialogues in Paradise</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Chinese Can Xue's first book to appear in English radically departs from the realism governing the fiction of her compatriots. ``Because of universal love,'' she declares, ``human beings can detach and sublimate themselves in the realm of art.'' The stories here reflect an interior vision in which conflict is represented impressionistically, symbolically. ``My mother has melted into a basin of soap bubbles,'' begins the confession of a man literally bestialized by his anger; elsewhere, a protagonist suddenly perceives that ``Father . . . has the all-too-familiar eye of a wolf. So that was it! At night he became one of the wolves.'' Other metaphors resist decoding (``The transparent tree is shaking its white canopy'') and some conceits seem coy (``That night she lay down and suddenly realized she had not go

Author

Can Xue

Publisher

Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780810108301

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.14 / 5 (64 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14