Woman Warrior

Picador Classic

AvMaxine Hong Kingston

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Engelska, 2014

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'A strange, enchanting book . . . unbeatable' - The Guardian'Dizzying, elemental' - John Leonard, The New York TimesA classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America.Throughout her childhood, Maxine Hong Kingston listened to her mother’s mesmerizing tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way upwards. Growing up in a changing America, surrounded by Chinese myth and memory, this is her story of two cultures and one trenchant, lyrical journey into womanhood.Complex and beautiful, angry and adoring, Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior is a seminal piece of writing about emigration and identity. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1976 and is widely hailed as a feminist classic.Part of the Picador Collection.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-12-15
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781447275237
Förlag:Pan Macmillan

Utforska kategorier

Självbiografi: författare och journalister inom Biografier
Sanna berättelser inom Biografier
Migration inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese-American writer of fiction and non-fiction. Her memoir The Woman Warrior won the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

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This is a delightful book ... tells more than I ever imagined about the strangeness of being Chinese and a woman; it also gives a superb account of what it's like simply to be alive -- Victoria Radin New Society A strange, enchanting book ... As a manual of self-discovery through the channels and terrors of one's own rejected communal memory, it is unbeatable Guardian As a dream - of the "female avenger" - it is dizzying, elemental, a poem turned into a sword ... reimagining the past with such dark beauty, such precision and anger that you feel you have saddled the Tao dragon and see all through the fiery eye of God -- John Leonard New York Times A book of fierce clarity and originality Newsweek It [has] crossed cultural boundaries and fused literary genres in startlingly original ways Guardian