The Last Lover

From the sensational Chinese author who has been called “a new world master,” a Kafkaesque novel set in a fictional Western nation

Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award for fiction, presented by Three Percent, a resource for international literature

“[A] mind-bending novel. . . . Xue succeeds in creating a unique, immersive, tale of ‘intersecting dreamworlds.’”—Publishers Weekly

In Can Xue’s extraordinary book, we encounter a full assemblage of husbands, wives, and lovers. Entwined...