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Fifth Book of Peace by Kingston Maxine Hong
Category: Biography Memoir
By the author of the bestselling Woman Warrior, a magical book of peace built on the stories of war.The Fifth Book of Peace begins as the author is driving home from her father's funeral and finds the exit to her neighbourhood blocked; a firestorm is devouring the Berkeley hills, including her house and ...Show more
I Love a Broad Margin To My Life by Maxine Hong Kingston
Category: Biography
Born in 1940, one of eight children, Maxine Hong Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants to America. This memoir recalls her first major work "The Woman Warrior" in which she blended Chinese myth with fiction and autobiography to reflect on her mother's past life in China and the experience of im ...Show more
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Xiaolu Guo 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 When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talking-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but w ...Show more
The Woman Warrior, China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston (Senior Lecturer, Department of English University of California, Berkeley)
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Here-for the first time in one volume-are two classic, brilliantly original works on the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. In both books Maxine Hong Kingston mines her family's past and her culture's stories, weaving myth and memory to fashion works of enormous ...Show more
The Woman Warrior - Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage International Ser.
"A classic, for a reason" - Celeste Ng via Twitter In her award-winning book The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston created an entirely new form--an exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in i ...Show more
Woman Warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
Category: Biography
'A brilliant memoir. Maxine Hong Kingston writes with bitter and relentless love. Her voice, now, is as clear as the voice of Ts'ai Yen, who sang her sad, angry songs of China to the barbarians. It is as fierce as a warrior's voice, and as eloquent as any artist's' Jane Kramer, New York Times Book Revie ...Show more
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