A Memoir of Misfortune - Rilegato

Su, Xiaokang; Xiaokang, Su; Chu, Hung; Su, Hsiao-Kang; Zhu, Hong

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ISBN 10: 0375410392 ISBN 13: 9780375410390

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2001

Riassunto

A Chinese journalist who escaped Communist China after the Tiananmen Square massacre describes his family's new life in the United States, an experience that was transformed by an automobile accident that left his wife terribly injured and in a coma.

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Recensione:

"This book is a record of intense soul-searching, of a reevaluation of the self's role in the family, and of the impossibility of understanding and mastering one's (mis)fortune. Su Xiaokang writes with candor, feeling, and intelligence. In an allegorical sense, this book is a concise history of the exiled soul. Its rich details, acute observations, and relentless self-questioning mark an earnest but tempered mind at work. Zhu Hong's supple translation has rendered the prose achingly beautiful."
-Ha Jin, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting

"In his Memoir of Misfortune, Su Xiaokang reminds us all of the agonizing consequences exile can have: loss of purpose, loss of language, loss of country, loss of a familiar audience. But faced with the greatest potential loss of all, his wife's death, Su comes back from the edge to create an astonishing work of love and compassion, one that reaffirms the triumph of life."
-Jonathan Spence, Yale University

L'autore:

Su Xiaokang was born in 1949 in China’s Zhejiang province. He now lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375410392
• ISBN 13: 9780375410390
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 329