{"product_id":"frontier","title":"Frontier","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrontier opens with the story of Liujin, a young woman heading out on her own to create her own life in Pebble Town, a somewhat surreal place at the base of Snow Mountain where wolves roam the streets and certain enlightened individuals can see and enter a paradisiacal garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExploring life in this city (or in the frontier) through the viewpoint of a dozen different characters, some simple, some profound, Can Xue’s latest novel attempts to unify the grand opposites of life—barbarism and civilization, the spiritual and the material, the mundane and the sublime, beauty and death, Eastern and Western cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA layered, multifaceted masterpiece from the 2015 winner of the Best Translated Book Award, Frontier exemplifies John Darnielle’s statement that Can Xue’s books read “as if dreams had invaded the physical world.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant \u0026amp; Chen Zeping\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Letter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48988677833012,"sku":null,"price":1210.0,"currency_code":"PHP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/6434\/7188\/files\/Frontier-26_large_ebcfe386-7b72-40f5-ba33-f07573a75e93.webp?v=1767413483","url":"https:\/\/shop.tadiarlibrary.org\/products\/frontier","provider":"Puón Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}