- EAN13
- 9781643755175
- Éditeur
- Algonquin Books
- Date de publication
- 07/05/2024
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
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Aide EAN13 : 9781643755175
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A captivating and intimate debut novel interwoven with folktale and myth,
Wendy Chen's Their Divine Fires tells the story of the love affairs of three
generations of Chinese women across one hundred years of revolutions both
political and personal.
In 1917, at the dawn of the Chinese revolution, Yunhong is growing up in the
southern china countryside and falls deeply in love with the son of a wealthy
landlord despite her brother's objections. On the night of her wedding, her
brother destroys the marriage, irrevocably changing the shape of Yunhong's
family to come: her daughter, Yuexin, will never know her father. Haunted by a
history that she does not understand, Yuexin passes on those memories to her
daughters Hongxing and Yonghong, who come of age in the years following Mao's
death, battling the push and pull of political forces as they forge their own
paths. Each generation guards its secrets, leaving Emily, great-granddaughter
of Yunhong and living in contemporary America, to piece together what actually
happened between her mother and her aunt, and the weight of their shared
ancestry.
Drawing on the lives of her great-grandmother and her great-uncles--both of
whom fought on the side of the Communists--as well as her mother's experiences
during the Cultural Revolution, Wendy Chen infuses this gorgeous debut with a
passion that will transport the reader back to powerful moments in history
while bringing us close to the women who persisted despite the forces all
around them. Both brilliant and haunting, it's a story about what our
ancestors will, and won't, tell us.
Wendy Chen's Their Divine Fires tells the story of the love affairs of three
generations of Chinese women across one hundred years of revolutions both
political and personal.
In 1917, at the dawn of the Chinese revolution, Yunhong is growing up in the
southern china countryside and falls deeply in love with the son of a wealthy
landlord despite her brother's objections. On the night of her wedding, her
brother destroys the marriage, irrevocably changing the shape of Yunhong's
family to come: her daughter, Yuexin, will never know her father. Haunted by a
history that she does not understand, Yuexin passes on those memories to her
daughters Hongxing and Yonghong, who come of age in the years following Mao's
death, battling the push and pull of political forces as they forge their own
paths. Each generation guards its secrets, leaving Emily, great-granddaughter
of Yunhong and living in contemporary America, to piece together what actually
happened between her mother and her aunt, and the weight of their shared
ancestry.
Drawing on the lives of her great-grandmother and her great-uncles--both of
whom fought on the side of the Communists--as well as her mother's experiences
during the Cultural Revolution, Wendy Chen infuses this gorgeous debut with a
passion that will transport the reader back to powerful moments in history
while bringing us close to the women who persisted despite the forces all
around them. Both brilliant and haunting, it's a story about what our
ancestors will, and won't, tell us.
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