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Woman Warrior
Häftad, 2025
124 kr
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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, …
Woman Warrior
Häftad, 2015
160 kr
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With an introduction by Xiaolu GuoA 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.When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talking-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be …
Woman Warrior
Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
E-bok, 2010
211 kr
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A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.
China Men
E-bok, 2011
209 kr
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The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here''s a storyteller''s tale of what they endured in a strange new land. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Tripmaster Monkey
His Fake Book
E-bok, 2011
80 kr
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Driven by his dream to write and stage an epic stage production of interwoven Chinese novelsWittman Ah Sing, a Chinese-American hippie in the late ''60s. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Literature of California, Volume 1
Native American Beginnings to 1945
Av Jack Hicks, James D. Houston m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
509 kr
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"The Literature of California" is a landmark publication - unmatched by any existing collection and distinguished by its breadth, variety of sources, and historical sweep. The editors have been refreshingly inclusive and imaginative in their selection: some of the writers are internationally known, …
To Be the Poet
Inbunden, 2002
585 kr
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"I have almost finished my longbook," Maxine Hong Kingston declares. "Let my life as Poet begin...I won't be a workhorse anymore; I'll be a skylark." To Be the Poet is Kingston's manifesto, the avowal and declaration of a writer who has devoted a good part of her sixty years to writing prose, and …
Hawaii One Summer
Häftad, 1998
187 kr
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Maxine Hong Kingston''s essays do not attempt to capture Hawai''i but instead provide the reader with a ge nerous sampling of her impressions over a twenty year period whilst living there. '
I Love a Broad Margin To My Life
E-bok, 2011
170 kr
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Maxine Hong Kingston, author of such seminal works as The Woman Warrior and China Men, is one of the most important American writers of her generation. In this remarkable memoir, she writes from the point of view of being sixty-five, looking back on a rich and complex life of literature and …
Woman Warrior
Picador Classic
E-bok, 2014
179 kr
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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
The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, Hawai'i One Summer, Other Writings (LOA #355)
Av Maxine Hong Kingston, Viet Thanh Nguyen
Inbunden, 2022
521 kr
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The largest and most comprehensive edition of our foremost Asian American writer: three classic books and additional writings, many rare, that together offer a vivid and searching portrait of immigrant experience and American dreams. Maxine Hong Kingston made a stunning entrance on the American …
Hawai'i One Summer
E-bok, 2014
182 kr
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Essays on the island and its history and traditions from the National Book Award–winning author of The Woman Warrior. In these eleven thought-provoking pieces, acclaimed writer and feminist Maxine Hong Kingston tells stories of Hawai''i filled with both personal experience and wider perspective. …
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Roman
E-bok, 2025
237 kr
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Maxine Hong Kingston wächst in zwei scheinbar unvereinbaren Welten auf: im individualistischen Kalifornien der 1940er-Jahre, wohin ihre Eltern migrierten, und in dem in den Geschichten ihrer Mutter, Tapfere Orchidee, heraufbeschworenen China – einem Land voller Geisterglauben und Schrecken, …
La guerrera
E-bok, 2025
98 kr
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UN CLÁSICO MODERNO GANADOR DEL NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD MÁS DE UN MILLÓN DE EJEMPLARES VENDIDOS UNA ESTIMULANTE MEZCLA DE AUTOBIOGRAFÍA Y MITOLOGÍA «Vertiginoso, elemental, un poema convertido en espada». THE NEW YORK TIMES «Un clásico, y con razón». CELESTE NG Cuando era niña, Kingston …
