Monkey King - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor Patricia Chao reviews Latin dance music for Global Rhythm magazine and is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Monkey King . She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship as well as the New Voice Award for Poetry. She danced mambo with the performance troupe Casa de la Salsa, and lives in New York City. Klappentext Monkey King   tells the story of 28-year-old Sally Wang, a Chinese-American woman whose mental breakdown and sojourn in a hospital set her firmly on the path of memory. Her recovery takes place against a rich tapestry of culture and personality that unfolds before our eyes under the Monkey King's ghostly shadow. For Sally has been living with a terrible family secret, one that has shattered her life. How she pulls together her Chinese and American identities into a cohesive self and rejoins the land of the living is recounted with a wry and refreshing honesty. Zusammenfassung Monkey King   tells the story of 28-year-old Sally Wang! a Chinese-American woman whose mental breakdown and sojourn in a hospital set her firmly on the path of memory. Her recovery takes place against a rich tapestry of culture and personality that unfolds before our eyes under the Monkey King's ghostly shadow. For Sally has been living with a terrible family secret! one that has shattered her life. How she pulls together her Chinese and American identities into a cohesive self and rejoins the land of the living is recounted with a wry and refreshing honesty.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Chao
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.01.1998
• EAN: 9780060928933
• ISBN: 978-0-06-092893-3
• No. of pages: 324
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Coming of age, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: General, FICTION: Family Life / Siblings, FICTION: Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, FICTION: Coming of Age, FICTION: Cultural Heritage, FICTION: Psychological, ASIAN & ASIAN AMERICAN: ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE, FICTION: World Literature / American / General, Metaphysical / philosophical fiction, Asian & Asian American / Asian American Literature