The Sorrows of Others - Brossura

Zhang, Ada

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1736370960 ISBN 13: 9781736370964

Casa editrice: Public Space, 2023

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2024 WHITING AWARD WINNER
A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION 5 UNDER 35
REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS PRIZE LONGLIST
THE STORY PRIZE LONGLIST

Set in China and America, in the generations after the Cultural Revolution, The Sorrows of Others is a dazzling collection about people confronted with being outsiders—as immigrants, as revolutionaries, and even, often, within their own families.

"Writers with virtually perfect debuts are certainly rare; Zhang joins that short list with a magnificent ten-story collection filled with lost souls aching for connection on both sides of the world." —Booklist starred review

In New York City, an art student finds an unexpected subject when she moves in with a grandmother from Xi’an, and boundaries are put into question. When a newlywed couple moves to Arizona, adapting to unfamiliar customs keeps their marriage from falling apart. A woman grapples with what it means to care for another, and the limits of that care, when her dying husband returns from Beijing years after abandoning her. And during a rainy summer in Texas, a visitor exposes the unspoken but unburiable history that binds two families together. Ada Zhang writes with startling honesty and love about lives young and old, in a stunning debut that explores what happens when we leave home and what happens when we stay, and the selves we meet and shed in the process of becoming.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Ada Zhang is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her short stories have appeared in A Public Space, McSweeney's, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She grew up in Austin, Texas, and now lives in New York City, where she is an associate editor of adult’s and children’s books at Running Press, an imprint of Hachette Book Group. The Sorrows of Others is her first book.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Public Space
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1736370960
• ISBN 13: 9781736370964
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 141
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile