Sze - Lorrain Fiona
Sze - Lorrain Fiona - Dear Chrysanthemums A Novel In Stories - Paperback
Sze - Lorrain Fiona - Dear Chrysanthemums A Novel In Stories - Paperback
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Description: 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. 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 to their tragic end. Death at the Wukang Mansion 1966: Punished for her extramarital affair a dancer is transferred to Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution and assigned to an ominous apartment in a building whose other residents often depart in coffins. The White Piano 1996: A budding pianist from New York City settles down in Paris and is assaulted when a mysterious piano arrives from Singapore. The Invisible Window 2016: After their exile following the Tiananmen Square massacre three women gather in a French cathedral to renew their friendship and reunite in their grief and faith. Evocative vivid disturbing and written with a masterly ear for language Dear Chrysanthemums renders a devastating portrait of diasporic life and inhumanity as well as a tender web of shared memory artistic expression and love.
Title: Dear Chrysanthemums A Novel In Stories
Author(s): Sze - Lorrain Fiona
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781668012987
Pages: 176 Pages, Rough Front
Publication Date: 5/2/2023
Category: Historical Fiction
Description: 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. 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 to their tragic end. Death at the Wukang Mansion 1966: Punished for her extramarital affair a dancer is transferred to Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution and assigned to an ominous apartment in a building whose other residents often depart in coffins. The White Piano 1996: A budding pianist from New York City settles down in Paris and is assaulted when a mysterious piano arrives from Singapore. The Invisible Window 2016: After their exile following the Tiananmen Square massacre three women gather in a French cathedral to renew their friendship and reunite in their grief and faith. Evocative vivid disturbing and written with a masterly ear for language Dear Chrysanthemums renders a devastating portrait of diasporic life and inhumanity as well as a tender web of shared memory artistic expression and love.
Title: Dear Chrysanthemums A Novel In Stories
Author(s): Sze - Lorrain Fiona
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781668012987
Pages: 176 Pages, Rough Front
Publication Date: 5/2/2023
Category: Historical Fiction
