Vertical Motion
ISBN-13: 9781934824375
Contributor(s): Can Xue
Subject: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)
Publisher Imprint: Open Letter
Publication Date: 13-09-2011
Format: Paperback
Availability: In stock
£13.99
About the book
Two young girls sneak into the grounds of a hospital where they find a disturbing moment of silence in a rose garden. A couple grows a plant that blooms underground, invisibly, to their neighbour's consternation. A cat worries about its sleepwalking owner, who recieves a mysterious visitor while he is aleep. After a ten year absence a young man visits his uncle on the 24th floor of a high rise floating in the air. Can Xue is a master of the dreamscape, crafting stories that inhabit the space where fantasy and reality meet.