Katherine - Couverture rigide

Min, Anchee

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0241135419 ISBN 13 : 9780241135419

Editeur : Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

They were students in Shanghai, brought up to love Mao and to despise emotion, their only passion was communism. Then a new teacher arrived to teach them English vocabulary. With her scarlet lipstick and radical attitudes, Katherine reveals a whole new universe. Does she go too far?

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: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0241135419
• ISBN 13: 9780241135419
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible