Five Spice Street Italy Grab your popcorn and settle

Grab your popcorn and settle in for this incredibly fun and twisty read

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co-author of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation

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Five Spice Street Italy Grab your popcorn and settleThe first full length novel by Chinese author Can Xue to appear in English Five Spice Street tells the story of a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. The novel interweaves their endless suppositions into a work that is at once political parable and surreal fantasia. Some think X is 50 years old; others that she is 22. Some believe she has occult powers and has thereby enslaved the young men of the