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The Last Lover by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen; Can Xue is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Last Lover about?

From the sensational Chinese author who has been called "a new world master," a Kafkaesque novel set in a fictional Western nation Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award for fiction, presented by Three Percent, a resource for international literature In Can Xue's extraordinary book, we encounter a full assemblage of husbands, wives, and lovers. Entwined in complicated, often tortuous relationships, these characters step into each other's fantasies, carrying on conversations that are "forever guessing games." Their journeys reveal the deepest realms of human desire, figured in Can Xue's vision of snakes and wasps, crows, cats, mice, earthquakes, and landslides. In dive bars and twisted city streets, on deserts and snowcapped mountains, the author creates an extreme world where every character "is driving death away with a singular performance." Who is the last lover? The novel is bursting with vividly drawn characters. Among them are Joe, sales manager of a clothing company in an unnamed Western country, and his wife, Maria, who conducts mystical experiments with the household's cats and rosebushes. Joe's customer Reagan is having an affair with Ida, a worker at his rubber pl

Who reads The Last Lover?

Author

Annelise Finegan Wasmoen; Can Xue

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300206883

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.36 / 5 (69 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14