Synopsis
'A strange, enchanting book . . . unbeatable' - The Guardian
'Dizzying, elemental' - John Leonard, The New York Times
A classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America.
Throughout her childhood, Maxine Hong Kingston listened to her mother’s mesmerizing tales of a China where...
Details
01 May 2025272 pages
9781035063680Imprint: Picador
Reviews
This is a delightful book . . . tells more than I ever imagined about the strangeness of being Chinese and a woman; it also gives a superb account of what it’s like simply to be aliveVictoria Radin, New Society
A strange, enchanting book . . . As a manual of self-discovery through the channels and terrors of one’s own rejected communal memory, it is unbeatableThe Guardian
As a dream - of the ”female avenger” - it is dizzying, elemental, a poem turned into a sword . . . reimagining the past with such dark beauty, such precision and anger that you feel you have saddled the Tao dragon and see all through the fiery eye of GodJohn Leonard, The New York Times
A book of fierce clarity and originalityNewsweek
