The Palm Leaf Fan and Other Stories - Brossura

Li, Kwai-yun

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1894770315 ISBN 13: 9781894770316

Casa editrice: Mawenzi House Pub, 2002

Riassunto

Fiction. Asian Studies. From crumbling shops in Chinatown to decaying tanneries in Tangra, Kwai-yun Li's collection of linked short stories expose us to the sights, sounds, and smells of a marginalized community in post-colonial Calcutta. We meander into Wong's Shoe Shop, where a mother arranges a marriage for her six-year-old daughter. We stop at a school for girls, where the principal singles out students who have large breasts for punishment. We pause by a temple guarded by a billy goat where family drama rages. We rally with politicians while the monsoon rain drenches us. We relax under waving palms while the setting sun shimmers over the surface of the Tangra fish ponds. Kwai-yun Li's sensitivity and quirky sense of humour will keep us wanting to return to the ghetto, again and again.

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L'autore:

Kwai-yun Li's Hakka parents emigrated from Moi-yen, China, to Calcutta, India, where Kwai was born. She grew up in Chattawalla Gully, in the old part of the city, and came to Canada through an arranged marriage. She is a co-author ofA Kiss Beside the Monkey Bars, a collection of short stories.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

From crumbling shops in Chinatown to decaying tanneries in Tangra, Kwai-yun Li's collection of linked short stories expose us to the life of a marginalized community in Calcutta.

Sitting outside her shoe shop, a woman welcomes her neighbour and soon arranges a marriage or her six-year-old daughter; a woman runs a Buddhist circle and temple from her home, which handily supporting her family; during a border skirmish in the north east, Chinese mothers prepare packages for life in a concentration camp; and a gentle bookseller and his daughter disappear for his political sympathies...

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• Editore: Mawenzi House Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1894770315
• ISBN 13: 9781894770316
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 160