Tan takes us on a journey from her childhood, as a sensitive but intelligent young Chinese American, ashamed of her parents' Chinese ways, to the present day and her position as a novelist. She describes the daily difficulties of being at once American and Chinese and yet feeling at times like she was truly neither. And she tells the history of her family: the grandmother who committed suicide as the only means of defiance open to her against a husband who ignored her wishes; her remarkable mother, whose first husband had her jailed when she tried to leave him; and the shocking deaths of both her father and husband when Amy was just 14.
Kategorie:
Literatur/Literatur. Über Leben und Werk von Persönlichkeiten (Sammelbiographien)/Literatur. Über Leben und Werk von Persönlichkeiten (Einzeldarstellungen)
Verlag:
Harper Perennial
Ausleihbar:
Ja
Aufsprachedatum:
26.10.2011
Buchnummer:
659991