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Thank You, Mr. Nixon

By Gish Jen

Thank You, Mr. Nixon

By Gish Jen

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The acclaimed, award-winning author of The Resisters takes measure of the fifty years since the opening of China and its unexpected effects on the lives of ordinary people. It is a unique book that only Jen could write—a story collection accruing the power of a novel as it proceeds—a work that Cynthia Ozick has called “an art beyond art. It is life itself.” Beginning with a cheery letter penned by a Chinese girl in heaven to “poor Mr. Nixon” in hell, Gish Jen embarks on a fictional journey through U.S.-China relations, capturing the excitement of a world on the brink of tectonic change. Opal Chen reunites with her Chinese sisters after forty years; newly cosmopolitan Lulu Koo wonders why Americans “like to walk around in the woods with the mosquitoes”; and Hong Kong parents go to extreme lengths to reestablish contact with their “number-one daughter” in New York. With their profound compassion and equally profound humor, these stories trace the intimate ways in which humans make and are made by history. Delightful, provocative, and powerful, Thank You, Mr. Nixon captures an extraordinary era in an extraordinary way. A book only Gish Jen could write, it furnishes yet more proof of her eminent place among American storytellers.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
272
Release Date:
2022-11-01
Publication Date:
2022-11-01
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0593314093
ISBN13:
9780593314098
Weight:
276 g
Height:
130 cm
Width:
201 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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