The Embroidered Shoes

by Can Xue

These stories, written between 1986 and 1994, 10 years after the death of Mao--and during and following 1989's Tiananmen Square massacre--are suffused with the tone of that bizarre and radical time.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805054138
• ISBN13: 9780805054132
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

5 stars

The comparisons to Kafka and Borges are right on - Can Xue's stories are indeed bizarre, often meriting a second reading, but they are enthralling. This book is highly recommended, as are her other two.