| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
141 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
"Set in China and America, in the generations after the Cultural Revolution, The Sorrows of Others is a dazzling collection about people confronted with being outsiders--as immigrants, as revolutionaries, and even, often, within their own families. In New York City, an art student finds an unexpected subject when she moves in with a grandmother from Xi'an, and boundaries are put into question. When a newlywed couple moves to Arizona, adapting to unfamiliar customs keeps their marriage from falling apart. A woman grapples with what it means to care for another, and the limits of that care, when her dying husband returns from Beijing years after abandoning her. And during a rainy summer in Texas, a visitor exposes the unspoken but unburiable history that binds two families together. Ada Zhang writes with startling honesty and love about lives young and old, in a stunning debut that explores what happens when we leave home and what happens when we stay, and the selves we meet and shed in the process of becoming." -- Publisher description. |
| Contents |
The subject -- The sorrow of others -- Propriety -- Silence -- One day -- Julia -- Any good wife -- Sister machinery -- Knowing -- Compromise. |
| Subject |
Asian Americans -- Fiction.
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Families -- Fiction.
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Immigrants -- United States -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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Domestic fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781736370964 (paperback) |
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1736370960 (paperback) |
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9781736370971 (ebk.) |
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