Isbn: 9780520204805 - spider eaters: a memoir (10 risultati)

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Spanning the years from 1950 to 1980, this work represents the personal story of a Chinese woman who came of age during the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution. The author records her life from her early years as the daughter Chinese diplomats in Switzerland, to her girlhood at an elite middle school in Beijing, to her adolescent experience as a Red Guard and later as a labourer on a pig farm in the remote northern wilderness. She tells of her eventual disillusionment with the Maoist revolution and how she struggled to make sense of confliciting events that often blurred the line between victim and victimizer, aristocrat and peasant, communist and counterrevolutionary. Moving between past and present, dream and reality, the author aims to convey the vast complexity of life in China as well as the confusion and magic of her own inner life and struggle.…

Condizione: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine copy in hardcover with near fine jacket. Light fading to spine.

Quarter Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine (in mylar). First Edition. Rae Yang became a spider eater at age 15, when she enthusiastically joined the Red Guards in Beijing. Clean and sound with minimal wear. DJ spine slightly faded. 285 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Quarter Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine (in mylar). First Edition. Rae Yang became a spider eater at age 15, when she enthusiastically joined the Red Guards in Beijing. Clean and sound with minimal wear. 285 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Photos (illustratore). Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 0520204808. 1997, bright clean copy, with dustjacket, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981.

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Hardcover. Condizione: New.