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.
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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
Meng Jin Little Gods Signed First Edition Hardcover in Slipcase
Custom House
$27.50
- Weight:
- 2.00 LBS