The Year She Left Us - Hardcover

Ma, Kathryn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062273345 ISBN 13: 9780062273345

Verlag: HARPERCOLLINS, 2014

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"There's much to enjoy in "The Year She Left Us"....It's Ari's voice that sets this novel on fire....The magnetism exerted by Ari's chapters is all the more impressive because for much of the book, the character's misery seems to float free of her circumstances."--Laura Miller, "Salon"

"A sparklingly original fiction debut."--"O, the Oprah Magazine"

"Uniquely articulated and refreshing."--"Stanford Magazine"

Full of secrets and obsessed with identity, this story of an adopted Chinese girl comes closer to the complexity of things than any other account I have read. It is moving and well told, and rings perfectly true. --Gish Jen, author of "World and Town ""

Haunting .The foundling may be a family figure in the history of the novel, most prominently in Dickens and the Brontes, but Ma gives us a striking 21st-century iteration One of the stunning accomplishments of this book is Ma s tonal range. --Mona Simpson, "New York Times Book Review""

There s much to enjoy in "The Year She Left Us" .It s Ari s voice that sets this novel on fire .The magnetism exerted by Ari s chapters is all the more impressive because for much of the book, the character s misery seems to float free of her circumstances. --Laura Miller, "Salon""

In telling Ari Kong s quest, Ma succeeds in creating a deeply intelligent heroine as compelling as Holden Caulfield and Alexander Portnoy ."The Year She Left Us" is a fresh, compelling look at the ties that bind among all the kinds of families that we create. --May-Lee Chai, "Dallas Morning News""

In this provocative tale of a family pulled apart, Kathryn Ma proves herself a powerful storyteller and an astute observer of the complexities of human experience and the perils and possibilities of love. --Karin Evans, author of "The Lost Daughters of China" and "Not Quite Home""

Ma brings all sorts of relationships-mother-daughter, sister-sister, friend-friend-to vivid life. And she painstakingly conveys that we are never just one thing, and can never be fixed by just one formula. --"Booklist""

This story of strong women and their attachments is beautifully told, and is remarkably shrewd about familial love, cultural norms, and estrangement. A wonderfully rich first novel. --Charles Baxter, author of "The Feast of Love ""

Reseña del editor:

From the winner of the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Prize—comes the extraordinary, unexpected debut tale of three generations of Chinese-American women in a San Francisco family who must confront their past and carve out a future.

The Kong women are in crisis. A disastrous trip to visit her "home" orphanage in China has plunged eighteen-year-old Ari into a self-destructive spiral. Her adoptive mother, Charlie, a lawyer with a great heart, is desperate to keep her daughter safe. Meanwhile, Charlie must endure the prickly scrutiny of her beautiful, Bryn Mawr educated mother, Gran—who, as the daughter of a cultured Chinese doctor, came to America to survive Mao's Revolution—and her sister, Les, a brilliant judge with a penchant to rule over everyone's lives.

As they cope with Ari's journey of discovery and its aftermath, the Kong women will come face to face with the truths of their lives—four powerful intertwining stories of accomplishment, tenacity, secrets, loneliness, and love. Beautifully illuminating the bonds of family and blood, The Year She Left Us explores the promise and pain of adoption, the price of assimilation and achievement, the debt we owe to others, and what we owe ourselves.

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• Verlag: HARPERCOLLINS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0062273345
• ISBN 13: 9780062273345
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 326