The acclaimed, award-winning author of The Resisters takes measure of the fifty years since the opening of China and its unexpected effects on the lives of ordinary people. It is a unique book that only Jen could write—a story collection ac...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Feb-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN-13: 9780593319895)
This collection brings to life an 11-story journey through U.S.-Chinese relations, capturing both the excitement of a world on the brink of change and the all-too-human encounters that follow as East meets West. In her first collection of st...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Sep-2021, CD-Audio, Kirjastus: Audible Studios on Brilliance, ISBN-13: 9781713646624)
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Its a story you may think you know - an aging baseball coach is challenged by the very boy he took in and raised. But in this near future world, smart&; houses talk and listen, and - privy as they are to the secret life of the household - fa...Loe edasi...
The Resisters is palpably loving, smart, funny, and desperately unsettling. The novel should be required reading for the country both as a cautionary tale and because it is a stone-cold masterpiece. This is Gish Jens moment. She has pitch...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Dec-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Thorndike Press Large Print, ISBN-13: 9781432879969)
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The time: not so long from now. The place: AutoAmerica. The land: half under water. The Internet: one part artificial intelligence, one part surveillance technology, and oddly human--even funny. The people: Divided. The angel-fair Netted have jobs...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Feb-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN-13: 9780525657217)
Enduring life on the margins in a near-future world ruthlessly divided between the employed and unemployed, a once-professional couple give birth to an athletically gifted child, whose attention by the government compels her mother to challenge socie...Loe edasi...
As East and West become more and more entwined, we also continue to baffle one another. What’s more important—self-sacrifice or self-definition? Do we ultimately answer to something larger than ourselves—a family, a religion, a troo...Loe edasi...
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The Girl at the Baggage Claim is a provocative and important study of the different ideas Easterners and Westerners have about the self and society and what this means for current debates in art, education, geopolitics, and business. The Girl...Loe edasi...
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The Girl at the Baggage Claim is a provocative and important study of the different ideas Easterners and Westerners have about the self and society and what this means for current debates in art, education, geopolitics, and business. The Girl...Loe edasi...
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A personal, provocative, informative, and entertaining study of the different idea Asians and Westerners have of the self and how this plays out in our differing approaches to art, learning, politics, business, and almost everything else--...Loe edasi...
Sari: The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Mar-2013, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674072831)
In three pieces originally delivered as special lectures, draws on the biography of the authors father as well as the evolution of her own work to contrast Western and Eastern ideas of self-narration and interdependency. Chinese-American nov...Loe edasi...
Two years after burying her husband and best friend, 68-year-old Hattie Kong moves to a small New England town where she is joined by a Cambodian family and reunited with an ex-lover before tackling challenges in the form of fundamentalist Christians...Loe edasi...
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Two years after burying her husband and best friend, 68-year-old Hattie Kong moves to a small New England town where she is joined by a Cambodian family and reunited with an ex-lover before tackling challenges in the form of fundamentalist Christians...Loe edasi...
Two years after burying her husband and best friend, sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong moves to a small New England town where she is joined by a Cambodian family and reunited with an ex-lover before tackling challenges in the form of fundamentalist C...Loe edasi...
Two years after burying her husband and best friend, sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong moves to a small New England town where she is joined by a Cambodian family and reunited with an ex-lover before tackling challenges in the form of fundamentalist C...Loe edasi...
Two years after burying her husband and best friend, sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong moves to a small New England town where she is joined by a Cambodian family and reunited with an ex-lover before tackling challenges in the form of fundamentalist C...Loe edasi...
