The Embroidered Shoes: Stories

by Tsan-Hsueh; Can Xue; Translator-Ronald R. Janssen; Translator-Jian Zhang

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Henry Holt & Co, 1997-09. Hardcover. Very Good. COLLECTIBLE! 1st Edition (Stated), 1st Printing (w/full number line) 1997 Henry Holt & Company (Publisher; NY) HARDBACK; text clean/UNMARKED; color cover surface near mint/edge wear w/1 small tear + no nicks; price unclipped; spine strong; NOT x-library; No remainder mark; Not book club; 221 pages + 16 informational pgs; translated by Ronald R. Janssen + Jian Zhang; text is 11 stories (The Embroidered Shoes + the Vexation of Old Lady Yuan Si; Two Unidentifiable Persons; A Strange Kind of Brain Damage; Floating Lotus; A Dull Story; Child Who Raised Poisonous Snakes; Homecoming; An Episode w/No Foundation; Dreamland Never Described; Anonymities; Apple Tree in the Corridor); author biography w/photograph; color jacket design by Raquel Jaramillo; "1 of most glorious, vivid, lyrical, elaborate, poignant, hellacious imaginations on the planet. She is the finest revolutionary Gothicist writing today + true daughter of Kafka + Borges...here is a book as dangerous as it is beautiful"--Bradford Morrow; "a visionary artist, an acrobat of paradox. These tales are serene + jolting, elegant, mysterious, hilarious + powerfully transforming"--Joanna Scott; very good collectible copy of 10-year-old out-of-print hardback.

Book summary

A collection of eleven short stories by the Chinese surrealist (author of "Dialogues in Paradise" and "Old Floating Cloud").