Five Spice Street by Can Xue

Five Spice Street

Can Xue with Karen Gernant (Translator), Zeping Chen (Translator)

352 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

fiction funny slow-paced
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Five Spice Street tells the story of a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. The novel interweaves their endless suppositions into a work that is at once political parable and surreal fantasia. ...

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