The Cooked Seed: A Memoir

MIN, Anchee

ISBN 10: 1596916982 / ISBN 13: 9781596916982

Editore: Bloomsbury USA, U.S.A., 2013

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Bound in green boards, stamped in gold with illustrated dust jacket. This is a memoir by the author of Red Azalea. 361 pp. Codice articolo 5002103

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Titolo: The Cooked Seed: A Memoir

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury USA, U.S.A.

Data di pubblicazione: 2013

Legatura: Hard Cover

Condizione: Near Fine

Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine

Edizione: First Edition.

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<p>In 1994, Anchee Min made her literary debut with a memoir of growing up in China during the violent trauma of the Cultural Revolution. <i>Red Azalea</i> became an international bestseller and propelled her career as a successful, critically acclaimed author. Twenty years later, Min returns to the story of her own life to give us the next chapter, an immigrant story that takes her from the shocking deprivations of her homeland to the sudden bounty of the promised land of America, without language, money, or a clear path. <br><br>It is a hard and lonely road. She teaches herself English by watching Sesame Street, keeps herself afloat working five jobs at once, lives in unheated rooms, suffers rape, collapses from exhaustion, marries poorly and divorces.But she also gives birth to her daughter, Lauryann, who will inspire her and finally root her in her new country. Min's eventual successes-her writing career, a daughter at Stanford, a second husband she loves-are remarkable, but it is her struggle throughout toward genuine selfhood that elevates this dramatic, classic immigrant story to something powerfully universal.</p>

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<b>Anchee Min</b> was born in Shanghai in 1957. At seventeen she was sent to a labor collective, where a talent scout for Madame Mao's Shanghai Film Studio recruited her to work as a movie actress. She moved to the United States in 1984. Her first memoir, <i>Red Azalea</i>, was an international bestseller, published in twenty countries. She has since published six novels, most recently <i>Pearl of China</i>.