Bibliograph

Dear chrysanthemums, a novel in stories, Fiona Sze-Lorrain

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Label

Dear chrysanthemums, a novel in stories, Fiona Sze-Lorrain

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Dear chrysanthemums

Oclc number

1378029689

Responsibility statement

Fiona Sze-Lorrain

Sub title

a novel in stories

Summary

"A startling and vivid debut novel in stories from acclaimed poet and translator Fiona Sze-Lorrain featuring deeply compelling Asian women who reckon with the past, violence, and exileset in Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore, Paris, and New York. Composed of several interconnected stories, each taking place in a year ending with the number six, ironically a number that in Chinese divination signifies "a smooth life," Dear Chrysanthemums is a novel about the scourge of inhumanity, survival, and past trauma that never leaves. The women in these stories are cooks, musicians, dancers, protesters, mothers and daughters, friends and enemies, all inexplicably connected in one way or another." --, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Yi -- means one -- Death at the Wukang Mansion (1966) -- Cooking for Madame Chiang (1946) -- Green (1966) -- A change of wind (1976) -- The invisible window (2016) -- The white piano (1996) -- Reading a table (1976/1996) -- Neither an elegy nor a dream (1996) -- Back to Beijing (2016) -- News from Saigon (1995-1996) -- Dear chrysanthemums (1946/1966-1976/1996-2006)

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