Katherine - Couverture souple

Min, Anchee

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140248668 ISBN 13 : 9780140248661

Editeur : Penguin, 1996

Synopsis

Katherine, a radical American teacher, brings about a minor revolution in the minds of her repressed Chinese students, and in doing so becomes a problem for the Chinese authorities. This novel is about her attempt to understand China and China's attempts to suppress her.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This novel, described by the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review as "nothing short of miraculous," is the story of Zebra Wong, a Chinese girl whose pragmatic mind conflicts with her passionate heart; Lion Head, her classmate, whose penchant for romantic intrigue belies his political ambitions, and Katherine, the seductive American with the red lipstick and the wild laugh who teaches them English and other foreign concepts: individualism, sensuality, the Beatles. In Katherine's classroom, repression and rebellion meet head-on-and the consequences are both tragic and liberating.

Revue de presse

Searing, uncompromising prose. -Harper's Bazaar

Joltingly honest...and arresting tale of tyranny, deprivation, culture shock, eroticism, spirituality awakening and courage. -Booklist

Superb writing...Katherine explores the complex hungers of human soul caught up in the whirlwind of epic-making events. -San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

The story changes forward with its own energy. But with Min, there is a second reward-her eloquent, passionate writing. -Detroit Free Press

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140248668
• ISBN 13: 9780140248661
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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