Meng Jin Little Gods Signed First Edition Hardcover in Slipcase

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Meng Jin Little Gods Signed First Edition Hardcover in Slipcase

New York: Custom House, 2020; first edition. Hardcover. 279 pp. Heather paper over paper. Title stamped in white to spine. Just about Fine. Signed by Meng Jin to limitation page in black ink in both Chinese and English characters.



On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past, fighting what she calls the mind's arrow of time. When Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya, who grew up in America, takes her mother's ashes to China - to her, an unknown country. In a territory inhabited by the ghosts of the living and the dead, Liya's memories are joined by those of two others: Zhu Wen, the woman last to know Su Lan before she left China, and Yongzong, the father Liya has never known. In this way a portrait of Su Lan emerges: an ambitious scientist, an ambivalent mother, and a woman whose relationship to her own past shapes and ultimately unmakes Liya's own sense of displacement.


ISBN: 9780062935953


Subjects:

Américaines d'origine chinoise Romans, nouvelles, etc

Chinese American women

Chinese American women Fiction

Death

Death Fiction

Domestic fiction

FICTION / Asian American

FICTION / Cultural Heritage

FICTION / Literary

Fiction

Fictional Work

Immigrants

Immigrants Fiction

Mères et filles Romans, nouvelles, etc

Mort Romans, nouvelles, etc

Mother-daughter relationship Fiction

Mothers and daughters

Mothers and daughters Fiction

Novels

Réalisation de soi chez la femme Romans, nouvelles, etc

Romans

Self-realization in women

Self-realization in women Fiction