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ACCESS: THIRTEEN TALES - LATEST REVIEWS
What do we think we desire? What do we truly desire? These are the two competing forces underlying Xu Xi’s latest fiction collection, ACCESS, released November 2011 by Signal 8 Press. These thirteen tales are at once acerbic and heartbreaking, directing our gaze at the incongruities of human relations and the persistence of wounds our hearts cannot heal.
Contents TALL TALES: Anon. • Iron Light • The Wang Candidate CIRCULAR TALES: Space • To Body To Chicken • Servitude FAIRY TALES: Access • Agora • Famine OLD WIVES' TALES: Trashy Desires of Women Nearing Fifty • Available BEASTLY TALES: Crying with Audrey Hepburn • Lady Day OTHER WRITERS SAY:
“A collection of tales with hints of Chaucer, ranging from the world of privilege to office workers and massage girls; from heavily ironic vignettes on the corporate world to edgy stories of broken lives and selfish times . . . the access code to this grammar is to glean the shadow of loss lying between language and the loneliness of existence.” Brian Castro, author of Shanghai Dancing, The Bath Fugues and The Garden Book “Xu Xi has a sharp ear. The dominant voices in her latest collection of short stories belong to the bold and elegant Chinese women, the high achievers, losers, dreamers and dancers with families and lovers, who are separated by continents and cultures. Their stories, unsentimentally told, are a stimulating read.” Suchen Christine Lim, author of A Bit of Earth, Fistful of Colours and Rice Bowl
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