Wild Ginger: A Novel
Autor Anchee Minen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2003
The Red Guards have branded Wild Ginger's deceased father a traitor and eventually drive her mother to a gruesome suicide, but she fervently embraces Maoism to save her spirit. She rises quickly through the ranks and is held up as a national model for Maoism. Wild Ginger now has everything, even a young man who vies for her heart. But Mao's prohibition on romantic love places her in an untenable position. Into this sexually charged situation steps Maple, creating an uneasy triangle that Min has portrayed with keen pychological insight and her characteristic gift for lyrical eroticism.
In Anchee Min's previous three books she returned again and again to the devastating experience of the Cultural Revolution, which defined her youth. Here, in this slim but powerful novel, she gives us a moving story that goes closer to the core of that experience than anything she has written before, and brilliantly delineates the pychological and sexual perversion of those times. Ultimately, WILD GINGER has the clean lines of a parable, the poignancy of a coming-of-age novel, the sexiness of a French blue movie, and the sadness of a truly tragic love story.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780618380435
ISBN-10: 0618380434
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Mariner Books
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0618380434
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Mariner Books
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957. At seventeen she was sent to a labor collective, where a talent scout for Madame Mao's Shanghai Film Studio recruited her to work as a movie actress. She came to the United States in 1984 with the help of actress Joan Chen. Her memoir, Red Azalea, was named one of the New York Times Notable Books of 1994 and was an international bestseller, with rights sold in twenty countries. Her novels Becoming Madame Mao and Empress Orchid were published to critical acclaim and were national bestsellers. Her two other novels, Katherine and Wild Ginger, were published to wonderful reviews and impressive foreign sales.