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<p>Source: Radii (3/13/19)<br />
<a href="https://radiichina.com/chinese-avant-garde-author-can-xue-love-in-the-new-millennium/">Can Xue’s “Love in the New Millennium” Nominated for 2019 Man Booker International Prize</a><br />
<em>The 2019 Man Booker International Prize long list has been announced, with Chinese author Can Xue's fantastical Love in the New Millennium among the nominees</em><br />
By RADII CHINA</p>
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<p>Chinese avant-garde author Can Xue’s “darkly comic” novel <em>Love in the New Millenium</em> has made the <a href="https://themanbookerprize.com/international/news/2019-longlist-announced-man-booker-international-prize">Man Booker International Prize 2019 long list</a>. The story follows “a group of women [that] inhabits a world of constant surveillance” and represents the “most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China today”, according to its English language publisher, <a href="https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300224313/love-new-millennium">Yale University Press</a>.</p>
<p>Deng Xiaohua, the author behind the Can Xue pseudonym, was born in Changsha, in China’s southern province of Hunan. Her father, the one-time editor-in-chief of a prominent newspaper in the province, was labelled an “Ultra-Rightist” in the late 1950s along with other intellectuals of the period, and was sent to the countryside for two years for allegedly leading an anti-Communist group at the paper.</p>
<p>Can Xue’s work is renowned for its experimental, often abstract style. In the foreword to the novel, also published in <a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/11/19/starvation-and-suffering-also-get-you-high/"><em>The Paris Review</em></a>, Eileen Myles likens <em>Love in the New Millenium</em> to Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 Soviet sci-fi film <em>Solaris</em>. She also writes that,</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“To be a reader was to become a trailer, and to become an actor, too. It’s irresistible, the way one enters this laughable, shifting no-time where everyone inside is talking about like the weather. It’s also very boring, as a plotless book is. A circling, nonbuilding narrative gets tiring. What’s the pleasure, then? <em>Humor</em> and <em>surprise. </em>It’s a frankly poetic existence. Plus my reader’s sense of awe grew continually at the endless refillability of the thing. The book is a vase, it’s a form.”</p>
<p>For a taste of what that all means, you can find an excerpt of Annelise Finegan Wasmoen’s English translation of <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2018/11/love-in-the-new-millennium-can-xue/"><em>Love in the New Millenium</em> here.</a> And you can <a href="https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300224313/love-new-millennium">buy Can Xue’s <em>Love in the New Millenium</em>in the US here</a>.</p>
<p>The 2019 Man Booker International Prize’s long list of 13 novels will be reduced to a shortlist in April, with the winner set to be announced on May 21 in London.</p>
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by <a href="mailto:denton.2@osu.edu">denton.2@osu.edu</a> on March 15, 2019 </div>
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