Miss Chopsticks

Informationen zum Autor Xinran was born in Beijing in 1958 and was a successful journalist and radio presenter in China. In 1997 she moved to London, where she began work on her seminal book about Chinese women's lives, The Good Women of China . Since then she has written a regular column for the Guardian; appeared frequently on radio and TV and has published the acclaimed Sky Burial; the novel Miss Chopsticks; the groundbreaking book of oral history China Witness; a book of her Guardian columns called What the Chinese Don't Eat and Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother , about mothers and their lost daughters. She lives in London but travels regularly to China. Klappentext Sisters Three, Five and Six don't have much education, but they know two things for certain: their mother is a failure because she hasn't produced a son, and they only merit a number as a name. Together they find jobs, make new friends, and learn more than a few lessons about life... Zusammenfassung Sisters Three, Five and Six don't have much education, but they know two things for certain: their mother is a failure because she hasn't produced a son, and they only merit a number as a name. Together they find jobs, make new friends, and learn more than a few lessons about life...

Product details

• Authors: Xinran
• Assisted by: Esther Tyldesley (Translation), Tyldesley Esther (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.07.2008
• EAN: 9780099501534
• ISBN: 978-0-09-950153-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); China, FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary