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What are Can Xue’s most famous works?

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Chinese writer Can Xue’s famous works include the novels Five Spice Street (2002), Frontier (2008), Love in the New Millennium (2013), Barefoot Doctor (2019), and The Enchanting Lives of Others (2022) and the short-story collection I Live in the Slums (2020). Can’s fiction is noted for its experimentalism. Love in the New Millennium and I Live in the Slums were nominated for the International Booker Prize, and The Enchanting Lives of Others has been called her most accessible work.