The Chinese Groove

Author : Kathryn Ma
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640096183
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Chinese Groove written by Kathryn Ma and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Tyler meets Jade Chang in this buoyant, good-hearted, and sharply written novel about a blithely optimistic immigrant with big dreams, dire prospects, and a fractured extended family in need of his help—even if they don't know it yet “Ma’s iteration of the young migrant story is imbued with inherent optimism."—New York Times Book Review Eighteen-year-old Shelley, born into a much-despised branch of the Zheng family in Yunnan Province and living in the shadow of his widowed father’s grief, dreams of bigger things. Buoyed by an exuberant heart and his cousin Deng’s tall tales about the United States, Shelley heads to San Francisco to claim his destiny, confident that any hurdles will be easily overcome by the awesome powers of the “Chinese groove,” a belief in the unspoken bonds between countrymen that transcend time and borders. Upon arrival, Shelley is dismayed to find that his “rich uncle” is in fact his unemployed second cousin once removed and that the grand guest room he’d envisioned is but a scratchy sofa. The indefinite stay he’d planned for? That has a firm two-week expiration date. Even worse, the loving family he hoped would embrace him is in shambles, shattered by a senseless tragedy that has cleaved the family in two. They want nothing to do with this youthful bounder who’s barged into their lives. Ever the optimist, Shelley concocts a plan to resuscitate his American dream by insinuating himself into the family. And, who knows, maybe he’ll even manage to bring them back together in the process.

Author : Kathryn Ma
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062273361
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Year She Left Us written by Kathryn Ma and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three generations of Chinese-American women in a San Francisco family must confront their past and carve out a future in this extraordinary novel, a “haunting” debut full of “shimmering and unforgettable” characters. (New York Times Book Review) The Kong women are in crisis. A disastrous trip to visit her "home" orphanage in China has plunged eighteen-year-old Ari into a self-destructive spiral. Her adoptive mother, Charlie, a lawyer with a great heart, is desperate to keep her daughter safe. Meanwhile, Charlie must endure the prickly scrutiny of her beautiful, Bryn Mawr educated mother, Gran—who, as the daughter of a cultured Chinese doctor, came to America to survive Mao's Revolution—and her sister, Les, a brilliant judge with a penchant to rule over everyone's lives. As they cope with Ari's journey of discovery and its aftermath, the Kong women will come face to face with the truths of their lives—four powerful intertwining stories of accomplishment, tenacity, secrets, loneliness, and love. Beautifully illuminating the bonds of family and blood, The Year She Left Us explores the promise and pain of adoption, the price of assimilation and achievement, the debt we owe to others, and what we owe ourselves.

Author : Kathryn Ma
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587298783
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book All That Work and Still No Boys written by Kathryn Ma and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we survive our family, stay bound to our community, and keep from losing ourselves? In All That Work and Still No Boys, Kathryn Ma exposes the deepest fears and longings that we mask in family life and observes the long shadows cast by history and displacement. Here are ten stories that wound and satisfy in equal measure. Ma probes the immigrant experience, most particularly among northern California’s Chinese Americans, illuminating for us the confounding nature of duty, transformation, and loss. A boy exposed to racial hatred finds out the true difference between his mother and his father. Two old rivals briefly lay down their weapons, but loneliness and despair won’t let them forget the past. A young Beijing tour guide with a terrible family secret must take an adopted Chinese girl and her American family to visit an orphanage. And in the prize-winning title story, a mother refuses to let her son save her life, insisting instead on a sacrifice by her daughter. Intimate in detail and universal in theme, these stories give us the compelling voice of an exciting new author whose intelligence, insight, and wit impart a sense of grace to the bitter resentments and enduring ties that comprise family love. Even through the tensions Ma creates so deftly, the peace and security that come from building and belonging to one’s own community shine forth.

Author : Nicole Mones
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780547053738
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Last Chinese Chef written by Nicole Mones and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhilarating story is the transporting tale of how the sensual, romantic elements of haute Chinese cuisine become the perfect ingredients to lift the troubled soul of a grieving American woman.

Author : William Jennings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Shi King, the Old "Poetry Classic" of the Chinese written by William Jennings and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374475888
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Topsy-Turvy Emperor of China written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mean and ugly Emperor Cho Cho Shan, determined to be considered the most handsome and noble man in China, declares that everything is to be the opposite of what it was, so that evil, ugliness, and stupidity are to be the most admired qualities in hisk

Author : Vivian Connell
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789128951
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Chinese Room written by Vivian Connell and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese Room, first published in 1942, is a novel combining a mysterious string of anonymous letters with the sex lives of the main characters: the exploits of Nicholas, a banker; the sexual awakening of his wife, Muriel; and Nicholas’ affair with Sidone, his secretary and mistress. Set in England in the 1940s, The Chinese Room was very popular despite attempts to censor the book, and underwent numerous reprintings into the 1960s.

Author : Eveline Chao
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101149302
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Niubi! written by Eveline Chao and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to talk dirty and influence people—in Chinese! You can study Chinese for years, but do you really know how to talk like a native speaker? The next book in Plume’s foreign language slang series, Niubi! will make sure you learn all the colorful vernacular words and phrases used by Chinese people of all ages in a variety of situations, including flirting and dating, wheeling and dealing, and even specific Internet slang—not to mention plenty of Chinese words that are...well, best not to mention. Accessible and useful to complete novices (Niubi! newbies), intermediate students of Mandarin Chinese, or just anyone who enjoys cursing in other languages, this irreverent guide is packed with hilarious anecdotes and illustrations, mini cultural lessons, and contextual explanations. So whether you?re planning a trip to Beijing, flirting with an online acquaintance from Shanghai, or just want to start a fight in Chinatown—Niubi! will ensure that nothing you say is lost in translation.

Author : Mo Yan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857422217
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Pow! written by Mo Yan and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [In this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature], "a benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama--in which nearly everyone dies--unfurls ... As his dual narratives merge and feather into one another, each informing and illuminating the other, Mo Yan probes the character and lifestyle of modern China."--Publisher's description.

Author : Jin Yong
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250220696
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Bond Undone written by Jin Yong and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Bond Undone is the second book in Jin Yong's epic Chinese classic and phenomenon Legends of Condor Heroes, published in the US for the first time! In the Jin capital of Zhongdu, Guo Jing learns the truth of his father’s death and finds he is now betrothed, against his will, to two women. Neither of them is his sweetheart Lotus Huang. Torn between following his heart and fulfilling his filial duty, Guo Jing journeys through the country of his parents with Lotus, encountering mysterious martial heroes and becoming drawn into the struggle for the supreme martial text, the Nine Yin Manual. But his past is catching up with him. The widow of an evil man he accidentally killed as a child has tracked him down, intent on revenge. Meanwhile, his true parentage at last revealed, Yang Kang, the young prince Guo Jing must face in the Garden of the Eight Drunken Immortals, is forced to choose his destiny. Will he continue to enjoy the life of wealth and privilege afforded to him by the invader of his homeland, or give up all he has known to avenge his parents?