The Coffin Tree - Couverture souple

Law-Yone, Wendy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0810151413 ISBN 13 : 9780810151413

Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Wendy Law-Yone opens her first novel with the phrase of a survivor, ""Living things prefer to go on living."" A young woman and her older half-brother are expelled from their home in Burma by a savage political coup. Sent to elusive safety in America, the motherless siblings find themselves engulfed by the indifference, hypocrisy, and cruelty of an American society unable to deal with difference. Her brother's inevitable suicide drives the unnamed narrator into the seclusion of a mental hospital, where memories of her childhood and the strength it ingrained in her are enough to heal her heart and return her to the outside world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Wendy Law-Yone was horn in Mandalay, Burma, and raised in Rangoon. She is currently the David T. K. Wong Follow at the University of East Anglia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Northwestern University Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0810151413
• ISBN 13: 9780810151413
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
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• Personne responsable: non disponible