Love in the New Millennium

Can Xue is the pseudonym of the Chinese writer Deng Xiaohua (b. 1953). Formerly a tailor, she began writing fiction in 1983. Her works include Barefoot Doctor, Five Spice Street, The Last Lover, and I Live in the Slums. Annelise Finegan Wasmoen is academic director and clinical associate professor of translation at NYU School of Professional Studies. Eileen Myles is a poet, novelist, and art journalist whose books include For Now, Chelsea Girls, and Evolution.

“In this dreamlike novel . . . amid increasingly bizarre scenarios, appearances give way to hidden, otherworldly layers.”—New Yorker“I typed this review in one go in 30 minutes or so, and it’s not often I’m this enthused to share as much about a book after finishing. I think it attests to the novel’s greatness.”—Tommi Laine, Literary NoiseLonglisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019Best Translated Book Award long list finalist in the Fiction category, sponsored by Three PercentShortlisted for the Internationaler Literaturpreis 2022, sponsored by Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Foundation Elementarteilchen“Love in the New Millennium is, as always with Can Xue’s work, a marvel. She is one of the most innovative and important contemporary writers in China and, in my opinion, in world literature.”—Bradford Morrow, author of The Prague SonataPraise for Can Xue:  “There’s a new world master among us, and her name is Can Xue.”—Robert Coover  “If China has one possibility of a Nobel laureate it is Can Xue.”—Susan Sontag