Can Xue’s ambitious, dreamlike novel examines the nebulous, perplexing and unfathomable nature of love in China in the 21st century
By Can Xue
Translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen
Annelise Finegan Wasmoen
Annelise Finegan Wasmoen was born in Philadelphia, USA, in September 1981
She is Academic Director and Clinical Assistant Professor of the MS in Translation and oversees the Translation and Interpreting open enrolment programme at The Center for Applied Liberal Arts at NYU. Her translations from Chinese into English include Can Xue’s novel The Last Lover, which received the Best Translated Book Award from Three Percent and was longlisted for the National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association. She also has a background in academic and textbook publishing. Annelise is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, where she completed a Graduate Certificate in Translation Studies, and she holds a B.A. in Literature from Yale University. She lives in Buffalo, NY, USA.
