Re Jane: A Novel - Brossura

Park, Patricia

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ISBN 10: 0143107941 ISBN 13: 9780143107941

Casa editrice: Penguin Books, 2016

Riassunto

“Re Jane is snappy and memorable, with its clever narrator and insights on clashing cultures.”—Entertainment Weekly

For Jane Re, half-Korean, half-American orphan, Flushing, Queens, is the place she’s been trying to escape from her whole life. Sardonic yet vulnerable, Jane toils, unappreciated, in her strict uncle’s grocery store and politely observes the traditional principle of nunchi (a combination of good manners, hierarchy, and obligation). Desperate for a new life, she’s thrilled to become the au pair for the Mazer-Farleys, two Brooklyn English professors and their adopted Chinese daughter. Inducted into the world of organic food co-ops, and nineteenth–century novels, Jane is the recipient of Beth Mazer’s feminist lectures and Ed Farley’s very male attention. But when a family death interrupts Jane and Ed’s blossoming affair, she flies off to Seoul, leaving New York far behind.

Reconnecting with family, and struggling to learn the ways of modern-day Korea, Jane begins to wonder if Ed Farley is really the man for her. Jane returns to Queens, where she must find a balance between two cultures and accept who she really is.Re Jane is a bright, comic story of falling in love, finding strength, and living not just out of obligation to others, but for one’s self.

Journeying from Queens to Brooklyn to Seoul, and back, this is a fresh, contemporary retelling of Jane Eyre and a poignant Korean American debut.
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Recensione:

"Park's breezy retelling of Jane Eyre features a half-American, half-Korean woman trying to strike out on her own in New York City. The novel's heroine takes a nannying job with a progressive couple, academics in Brooklyn, and flourishes, until a family obligation calls her back to Seoul." -- New York Times

"Like her Brontean namesake, Jane narrates her tale with honesty and wit. . . Reader, you'll love her" -- O Magazine

" Snappy and memorable with its clever narrator and insights on clashing cultures. " -- Entertainment Weekly

"Be ready to mull over your own place in the world as you root wholeheartedly for Jane to find hers." -- Glamour

"Re Jane . . . drolly explore[s] issues of class, ethnicity and women's autonomy for an unlikely heroine of the 21st century." -- Maureen Corrigan, NPR

" Park's debut is a cheeky, clever homage to Jane Eyre with touching meditations on Korean-American identity... ParkPublishers Weekly

" Re Jane is breezy and accessible. . . Park offers real insight into assimilationist struggles . . . Park's portrait of Korean-American life feels authentic and is ultimately endearing. Charlotte Bronte would be proud." -- BookPage

" Park is a fine writer with an eye for the effects of class and ethnic identity, a sense of humour, and a compassionate view of human weakness... An enjoyable book offering a portrait of a young woman struggling to come into her own in the increasingly complicated opening years of a new century." -- Kirkus Reviews

" [Jane's] journey ripples with comic and surprisingly authentic moments. Park is a smart, engaging writer, able to capture the emotional weight of a romantic gaze as well as the complicated ties of family. . . . Most everyone who has struggled to fit in will relate to parts of Park's coming-of-age tale. . . Reader, try not to leave charmed. " -- Denver Post

" In her delightful debut novel, Patricia Park uses the classic novel Jane Eyre as a template to examine very modern concepts: questions of identity and love, culture and conscience, even the hardships of immigration. But you don t really need familiarity with Charlotte Bronte s most famous work to appreciate Re Jane; it's entertaining all on its own, vibrant and witty and a hell of a lot of fun. " -- The Miami Herald

"A sensitive, witty tale of the search for belonging....Park's novel is so much more than a mere retelling of Jane Eyre... Readers should feel free to take this 'Jane' as is - an astute, resonating, humorous, discerning, original debut." -- The Christian Science Monitor

" [A] delightful first novel...Park's narrative voice is energetic, witty (the book bristles with one-liners) and thoughtful." -- --BBC.com

" Re Jane is a rich and engaging novel. Besides being a love story, it is infused with contemporary subject matter, such as longing versus belonging, the immigrant experience. Patricia Park writes with earnestness, honesty, and exuberance, which make the novel thoroughly enjoyable. " -- Ha Jin, National Book Award-winning author of"War Trash"and"Waiting"

"The Korean Americans of Queens find a daring new voice in Patricia Park's debut novel, as she takes a story we know and makes it into a story we've not seen before - a novel for the country we are still becoming. " -- Alexander Chee, author of"The Queen of the Night"

" Patricia Park's Re Jane is packed with authenticity, poignancy and humour. I was enchanted by this modern retelling of Jane Eyre as the tough yet vulnerable narrator captured my heart. " -- Jean Kwok, bestselling author of "Girl In Translation"and " Mambo in Chinatown "

" In Re Jane, Patricia Park transforms Charlotte Bronte's beloved novel with her own inimitable wit and imagination. A wonderfully suspenseful novel that will delight those who know the original, and those who don't. -- Margot Livesey, author of"The Flight of Gemma Hardy"

" A noteworthy debut from a writer who opens a ... smart, fresh, story of cultural complications that hasn't yet been told in quite this way. The funny and shrewdly observant narrator won me over on the very first page. " --Stephen McCauley, author of "The Object of My Affection"

L'autore:

Patricia Park was born and raised in New York City. She earned her BA in English from Swarthmore College and an MFA in Fiction from Boston University, where she studied with Ha Jin and Allegra Goodman. A former Fulbright Scholar and Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction, she has published essays in The New York Times, Slice, andThe Guardian. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
From the Hardcover edition.

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• Editore: Penguin Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0143107941
• ISBN 13: 9780143107941
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352