Dear Chrysanthemums: A Novel in Stories Sze-Lorrain Fiona
Dear Chrysanthemums: A Novel in Stories Sze-Lorrain Fiona A startling and vivid debut novel in stories from acclaimed poet and translator Fiona Sze-Lorrain, featuring deeply compelling Asian women…
Specifikacia Dear Chrysanthemums: A Novel in Stories Sze-Lorrain Fiona
Dear Chrysanthemums: A Novel in Stories Sze-Lorrain Fiona
A startling and vivid debut novel in stories from acclaimed poet and translator Fiona Sze-Lorrain, featuring deeply compelling Asian women who reckon with the past, violence, and exile--set in Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore, Paris, and New York.Composed of several interconnected stories, each taking place in a year ending with the number six, ironically a number that in Chinese divination signifies "a smooth life," Dear Chrysanthemums is a novel about the scourge of inhumanity, survival, and past trauma that never leaves. "Cooking for Madame Chiang," 1946: Two cooks work for Madame Chiang Kai-shek and prepare a foreign dish craved by their mistress, which becomes a political weapon and leads The women in these stories are cooks, musicians, dancers, protestors, mothers and daughters, friends and enemies, all inexplicably connected in one way or another.
Dear Science and Other Stories
Dear Science and Other Stories
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