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Katherine Paperback - 2001

by Anchee Min

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  • Title Katherine
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Berkley, New York
  • Date 2001-03-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Z-006-2651
  • ISBN 9780425180235 / 0425180239
  • Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.02 x 5.12 x 0.66 in (20.37 x 13.00 x 1.68 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
  • Library of Congress subjects China, Bildungsromans
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00065126
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

This novel, described by the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review as "nothing short of miraculous," is the story of Zebra Wong, a Chinese girl whose pragmatic mind conflicts with her passionate heart; Lion Head, her classmate, whose penchant for romantic intrigue belies his political ambitions, and Katherine, the seductive American with the red lipstick and the wild laugh who teaches them English and other foreign concepts: individualism, sensuality, the Beatles. In Katherine's classroom, repression and rebellion meet head-on-and the consequences are both tragic and liberating.

From the publisher

Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957. At seventeen, she was sent to a labor collective, where talent scouts discovered her and recruited her to work as an actress. She came to the U.S. in 1984 with the help of the actress Joan Chen. A painter, photographer, and musician, she lives in Los Angeles and Shanghai with her husband and daughter.

Media reviews

Searing, uncompromising prose. -Harper's Bazaar

Joltingly honest...and arresting tale of tyranny, deprivation, culture shock, eroticism, spirituality awakening and courage. -Booklist

Superb writing...Katherine explores the complex hungers of human soul caught up in the whirlwind of epic-making events. -San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

The story changes forward with its own energy. But with Min, there is a second reward-her eloquent, passionate writing. -Detroit Free Press

About the author

Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957. At seventeen, she was sent to a labor collective, where talent scouts discovered her and recruited her to work as an actress. She came to the U.S. in 1984 with the help of the actress Joan Chen. A painter, photographer, and musician, she lives in Los Angeles and Shanghai with her husband and daughter.

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