The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai - Couverture souple

Xu, Ruiyan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0312614152 ISBN 13 : 9780312614157

Editeur : Griffin, 2011

Synopsis

Li Jing, a happily married businessman, is dining at a grand hotel in Shanghai when a gas explosion rips through the building. A shard of glass pierces Jing's forehead, obliterating his ability to speak Chinese. He can form only faltering phrases in the English he spoke as a child in Virginia, leaving him unable to communicate with his wife, Meiling, or their young son. Desperate, the family turns to an American neurologist, Rosalyn Neal, who finds herself as lost as Jing--whom she calls James--in this bewitching city, where the two form a bond that Meiling does not need a translator to understand.

With gorgeous prose and a dazzling sense of place, The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai introduces a brilliant storyteller, who shows us the power of language in both our public and our private relationships.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ruiyan Xu was born in Shanghai and came to the United States at age 10 without speaking a word of English. She graduated from Brown University with honors in creative writing. She won the 2004 Hochstadt Award from Hedgebrook and a 2005 Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists, and has been awarded residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Jentel, Ragdale and the Anderson Center. An excerpt from her book The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai was published by the Great River Review. Xu lives in Brooklyn.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Griffin
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0312614152
• ISBN 13: 9780312614157
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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