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2016 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award Winner Leapfrog Fiction Contest Semifinalist Asheville Award Finalist Willow Books Literature Award Finalist Transoceanic Lights chronicles the hardships of a Chinese family after immigrating to the US. The overbearing mother must reconcile the immensity of her sacrifice in the midst of a deteriorating marriage. Her only solace is the distant promise of a better life for her son, who spends his days in school longing for the comfort of his homeland. This is a novel about familial love and discord, the strains of displacement, and the elusive nature of the American Dream. Here they come, fresh off the flight from China: The father, Ba, the mother, Ma, and their only child, unnamed; we ll call him Son. Son is 5, the same age the Chinese-American author was on his arrival in the U.S.; the novel has a strong autobiographical flavor. Kirkus
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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor
S. Li was born in Guangzhou, China in 1984 and moved to the US in 1989. He graduated with an A.B. in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard in 2006 and an M.D. from the University of Massachusetts in 2010. He lives in Boston. Transoceanic Lights is his first novel.
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Tolstoy begins Anna Karenina with Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Fast forward 100 or so years later to a far different setting than imperialist Russia, to the humble origins of an immigrant Chinese family in Boston, and you ll be in the territory ofTransoceanic Lights [. . .]. Li has written a mature work with an intense quality that provides a rarely seen aspect of the Asian American experience. S. Li is a singular contribution to the immigrant narrative and a necessary new voice to the growing genre of Asian American literature. SAMPAN
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