My South Seas sleeping beauty :: a tale of memory and longing /

My South Seas Sleeping Beauty is a captivating coming-of-age tale set in the magical jungles of Borneo. Told through the vivid recollections of a Chinese-Malay youth, the novel recounts the life of Su Qi, a troubled, sensitive son of a wealthy family, and exemplifies the imaginative range of one of...

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1. Verfasser: Zhang, Guixing (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Jaffee, Valerie (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Chinese
Veröffentlicht: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.
Schriftenreihe:Modern Chinese literature from Taiwan.
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Zusammenfassung:My South Seas Sleeping Beauty is a captivating coming-of-age tale set in the magical jungles of Borneo. Told through the vivid recollections of a Chinese-Malay youth, the novel recounts the life of Su Qi, a troubled, sensitive son of a wealthy family, and exemplifies the imaginative range of one of Taiwan's most innovative writers. ""There were all sorts of stories about how my younger sister died, "" Su Qi begins, hinting at the power of memory to bend and refract truth. Yet whichever the real story may be, the fact is that the death of Su Qi's sister created an irrevocab
Beschreibung:Translated from the Chinese.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 206 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
ISBN:9780231511827
0231511825

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