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21 produkter
World and Town
Av Gish Jen
E-bok, 2010
213 kr
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From the much-loved author of Who’s Irish? and The Love Wife, a world-sized novel set in a small New England town. Hattie Kong—the spirited offspring of a descendant of Confucius and an American missionary to China—has, in her fiftieth year of living in the United States, lost both her husband and …
Who's Irish?
Stories
Av Gish Jen
E-bok, 2012
195 kr
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In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on America--with sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreaking …
Mona in the Promised Land
A Novel
Av Gish Jen
E-bok, 2012
180 kr
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In 1968, the Chang family moves to posh Scarshill, New York, where the rhodendrons are as big as the Chang family''s old bathroom, and nobody trims the forsythia into little can shapes. This takes some getting used to--especially since there''s also a new social landscape, with a hot line, a …
The Resisters
A novel
Av Gish Jen
Häftad, 2021
259 kr
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The moving story of one family struggling to maintain their humanity in circumstances that threaten their every value—from the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of Thank You, Mr. Nixon. • “Intricately imagined … [It] grows directly out of the soil of our current political moment.” — The New …
Thank You, Mr. Nixon: Stories
Av Gish Jen
Häftad, 2022
318 kr
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The acclaimed, award-winning author of The Resisters takes measure of the fifty years since the opening of China and its unexpected effects on the lives of ordinary people. It is a unique book that only Jen could write—a story collection accruing the power of a novel as it proceeds—a work that …
Thank You, Mr. Nixon
Stories
Av Gish Jen
Inbunden, 2022
297 kr
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The acclaimed, award-winning author of The Resisters takes measure of the fifty years since the opening of China and its unexpected effects on the lives of ordinary people. It is a unique book that only Jen could write—a story collection accruing the power of a novel as it proceeds—a work that …
Bad Bad Girl
A Novel
Av Gish Jen
Häftad, 1900
297 kr
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L.A. TIMES 15 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • TIME "100 BEST" • RUPAUL'S BOOK CLUB PICK • An engrossing, blisteringly funny-sad autobiographical novel tracing a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship. “A transcendent work of art.” —Boston Globe “Gish Jen has written the multigenerational mother-daughter …
Bad Bad Girl
A Novel
Av Gish Jen
Inbunden, 1900
278 kr
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L.A. TIMES 15 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • TIME "100 BEST" • RUPAUL'S BOOK CLUB PICK • An engrossing, blisteringly funny-sad autobiographical novel tracing a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship. “A transcendent work of art.” —Boston Globe “Gish Jen has written the multigenerational mother-daughter …
Tiger Writing
Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self
Av Gish Jen
Inbunden, 2013
443 kr
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For author Gish Jen, the daughter of Chinese immigrant parents, books were once an Outsiders’ Guide to the Universe. But they were something more, too. Through her eclectic childhood reading, Jen stumbled onto a cultural phenomenon that would fuel her writing for decades to come: the profound …
Girl at the Baggage Claim
Explaining the East-West Culture Gap
Av Gish Jen
E-bok, 2017
180 kr
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A provocative and important study of the different ideas Easterners and Westerners have about the self and society and what this means for current debates in art, education, geopolitics, and business. Never have East and West come as close as they are today, yet we are still baffled by one another. …
Love Wife
Av Gish Jen
E-bok, 2004
213 kr
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From the massively talented Gish Jen comes a barbed, moving, and stylistically dazzling new novel about the elusive nature of kinship. The Wongs describe themselves as a “half half” family, but the actual fractions are more complicated, given Carnegie’s Chinese heritage, his wife Blondie’s WASP …
World and Town
A Novel
Av Gish Jen
Ljudbok, 2010
459 kr
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Sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong, descendant of Confucius, daughter of an American missionary, has lived to see both her husband and her best friend die back-to-back in a single year: “It was like having twins…She got to book the same church with the same pianist for both funerals and did think she …
Bad Bad Girl
Av Gish Jen
Inbunden, 2025
239 kr
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My mother had died, but still I heard her voice...Growing up in an affluent neighbourhood in 1930s Shanghai, Loo Shu-hsin is told that it is 'no good for a girl to be smart' - and yet when rumours of the revolution reach their enclave, she is the one sent abroad for an education. In New York, she …
Bad Bad Girl
Av Gish Jen
Häftad, 2026
127 kr
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My mother had died, but still I heard her voice...Growing up in an affluent neighbourhood in 1930s Shanghai, Loo Shu-hsin is told that it is 'no good for a girl to be smart' - and yet when rumours of the revolution reach their enclave, she is the one sent abroad for an education. In New York, she …
Resisters
A novel
Av Gish Jen
E-bok, 2020
220 kr
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" The Resisters is palpably loving, smart, funny, and desperately unsettling. The novel should be required reading for the country both as a cautionary tale and because it is a stone-cold masterpiece. This is Gish Jen''s moment. She has pitched a perfect game." --Ann Patchett The time: not so long …
