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Can Xue invites readers to enter an enveloping landscape, deeply organic and full of secrets, in which the physical and the spiritual are mixed. A place that probes the space between memory and silence; that is familiar to us and at the same time a fertile ground for the imagination, with deliciously eccentric and surreal elements. In her stories, men and women live on the edge of paranoia; snowbirds fly over its skies and the wind and the willows, magpies and azaleas, shadow men and underground bugs speak; natural entities that shed light on the forces that shape what we know as reality.