Ciara2d ago

I idly picked this up yesterday, thinking I’d read a few pages. Before I knew it, I was late for everything and had read half of it. Engrossingly slow-paced and peculiar. And just to make it even better, the translator is credited on the cover. This shouldn’t be so unusual that you notice it. It is lovely to see.

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Show threadCiara1d ago

Blimey. That escalated slowly. And darkly and absurdly and grotesquely. In the good way.

’On Mastodon, you are the algorithm.’ Oh, ok. Dimitris Sotakis - ’if you liked’: Han Kang. Haruki Murakami. Karel Čapek. And, too clichédly obvious but also too appropriate not to add: Kafka.

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Show threadCiara1d ago
Dimitris Sotakis: also ’if you liked’ that amazing Chinese writer whose name refuses to come to mind. The harder I try to recall, the less I can. There was a story with a twist about one leaf clinging to a tree outside a dying woman's window. I remember a man feeling like a kangaroo going downstairs. I tried NoAI-DuckDuckGoing ’Contemporary Chinese short stories Lady Writer kangaroo stairs leaf tree I liked it'. Oddly, no luck. Finally I regret that I no longer shelve my books by author country.
Show threadMargaret Dahlstrom

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Can Xue?

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Show threadCiara1d ago
@MargaretD Can Xue! Yes! Of course. I say now, now that you've worked it out for me. I should've asked you first, you really know your literature. Can Xue. Tack og tak and thank you.
Show threadRupert Curwen1d ago
@MargaretD @CiaraNi The other story sounds like "The Last Leaf" by O Henry. But he was a man, and also was American.
Show threadCiara1d ago
@smashtie @MargaretD I wonder if I'm mixing up my leaf motifs? I've read (and liked) O Henry too. Maybe the clinging leaf was O Henry and the leaf in Can Xue was floating away up a cliff? It's years since I read either of them. Now I must root out my O Henry collection too and see which leaf is which.
Show threadRupert Curwen1d ago
@CiaraNi @MargaretD I think I have to give Can Xue a try!
Show threadCiara1d ago
@smashtie @MargaretD Your mention of O Henry reminded me of something I love about books and literature - the vast range of it. Can Xue and O Henry could not be more different, and yet we can enjoy both their styles and stories.