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Mother River
Can Xue, trans. by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping
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Positive
Sam Sacks,
The Wall Street Journal
The style of these stories is akin to surrealism, with all the attendant pleasures and irritations ... Is the story sincere? Is it satirical? Its charm lies in its ability to leave such questions intriguingly unresolved.
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Mixed
John Self,
The Telegraph (UK)
A Nobel laureate-in-waiting? Not with these stories.
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Kirkus
Offbeat ... Mind-bending but warmly delivered domestic tales.
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