A series of short stories features such offbeat characters as a doctor-detective-warrior who sleeps like a hippo in a cistern and a homicidal maniac housewife whose husband ends up in the hospital with a stomach full of needles.

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Chinese writer Can Xue (Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas, Northwestern Univ., 1991) continues her pursuit of the nightmarish in this most recent collection of ten short stories and one novella. She explores difficult connections between and among loved ones, featuring partners, parents, and siblings who vanish and reappear or sicken with unexplainable and improbable diseases. Stories are set in perpetual darkness, characters suffer from sleeplessness and other forms of disorientation, and filth is prominent. An air of confusion with reality and existence prevails through all the stories, which are best read one at a time, partly because the dreamlike quality makes for difficult reading and partly because the descriptions of filth and disease can be overpowering. Recommended for academic libraries.?Rebecca A. Stuhr, Grinnell Coll. Libs., Iowa
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