For Today I Am A Boy - Couverture souple

Fu, Kim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1443412643 ISBN 13 : 9781443412643

Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers, 2014

Synopsis

A stunning literary debut: Peter is the prized only boy in his Chinese-Canadian family. But inside, he knows he is a girl . . .

At birth, Peter Huang is given the Chinese name juan chaun, meaning powerful king. He is the exalted only son in a family of daughters, the one who will finally fulfill his father’s dreams of Western masculinity. But Peter has different dreams: he knows that he is a girl.

Peter and his sisters—elegant Adele, shrewd Helen and Bonnie the bon vivant—grow up in a house of many secrets, then escape the confines of small-town Ontario and spread from Montreal to California to Berlin. Peter’s own journey is obstructed by playground bullies, masochistic lovers, Christian ex-gays and the ever-present shadow of his father.

Sensitive, witty and stunningly assured, Kim Fu’s debut novel is a coming-of-age tale like no other, one that lays bare the costs of forsaking one’s own path in deference to a road mapped out by others. Both lyrical and unflinching, For Today I Am a Boy shows us an unforgettable struggle: the story of a woman in the body of a Chinese-Canadian man— and marks the emergence of an astonishing new Canadian literary voice.

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À propos de l?auteur

KIM FU was born in 1987 to immigrant parents from Hong Kong and is a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s MFA program in creative writing. Her poetry, essays and long-form journalism have appeared in journals and anthologies across Canada and the U.S., including Best Canadian Essays 2012. Fu lives in Vancouver and Seattle.

WEB: KIMFU.CA
TWITTER: @SKIMFU

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1443412643
• ISBN 13: 9781443412643
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Silvia Ruiz Crespo; silviaruizcrespo3@icloud.com; a11.cyberbull@gmail.com; ; Calle otamendi; Madrid; Madrid; 28039; Espagne