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Five Spice Street

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Surreal speculation and identity on Five Spice Street.

"Five Spice Street" could be a mesmerizing journey for you if you're drawn to books that blend reality with the fantastic, challenging you to question the nature of truth and perception. Can Xue weaves a tapestry of intrigue around the enigmatic Madam X that captures the collective consciousness and showcases the rich complexity of human nature. Its dream-like narrative might change the way you think about the stories we tell ourselves about others.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Five Spice Street

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ISBN: 9780300167962
Date of Publication: 2012-04-24
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Drama
Related Topics: Asia, Asian Literature, Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.32
(rated by 158 readers)

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The first full-length novel by Chinese author Can Xue to appear in EnglishFive 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. Some think X is 50 years old; others that she is 22. Some believe she has occult powers and has thereby enslaved the young men of the street; others think she is a clever trickster playing mind games with the common people. Who is Madam X? How has she brought the good people of Five Spice Street to their knees either in worship or in exasperation? The unknown narrator takes no sides in the endless interplay of visions, arguments, and opinions. The investigation rages, as the street becomes a Walpurgisnacht of speculations, fantasies, and prejudices. Madam X is a vehicle whereby the people bare their souls, through whom they reveal themselves even as they try to penetrate the mystery of her extraordinary powers.Five Spice Street is one of the most astonishing novels of the past twenty years. Exploring the collective consciousness of this little street of ordinary people, Can Xue penetrates the deepest existential anxieties of the present day—whether in China or in the West—where the inevitable impermanence of identity struggles with the narrative within which identity must compose itself.
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Surreal speculation and identity on Five Spice Street.

"Five Spice Street" could be a mesmerizing journey for you if you're drawn to books that blend reality with the fantastic, challenging you to question the nature of truth and perception. Can Xue weaves a tapestry of intrigue around the enigmatic Madam X that captures the collective consciousness and showcases the rich complexity of human nature. Its dream-like narrative might change the way you think about the stories we tell ourselves about others.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.