Miss Chopsticks - E-book - ePub

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 Xinran et Esther Tyldesley - Miss Chopsticks.
Sisters Three, Five and Six don't have much education, but they know two things for certain: their mother is a failure because she hasn't produced a son,... Lire la suite
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Résumé

Sisters Three, Five and Six don't have much education, but they know two things for certain: their mother is a failure because she hasn't produced a son, and they only merit a number as a name. Women, their father tells them, are like chopsticks: utilitarian and easily broken. But when they leave their home in the countryside to seek their fortune in the big city, their eyes are suddenly and shockingly opened.
Together they find jobs, make new friends, and learn more than a few lessons about life...

Caractéristiques

  • Date de parution
    30/03/2010
  • Editeur
  • ISBN
    978-1-4070-6574-8
  • EAN
    9781407065748
  • Format
    ePub
  • Caractéristiques du format ePub
    • Protection num.
      Contenu protégé

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À propos des auteurs

Xinran was born in Beijing in 1958 and was a successful journalist and radio presenter in China. In 1997 she moved to London, where she began work on her seminal book about Chinese women's lives, The Good Women of China. Since then she has written a regular column for the Guardian; appeared frequently on radio and TV and has published the acclaimed Sky Burial; the novel Miss Chopsticks; the groundbreaking book of oral history China Witness; a book of her Guardian columns called What the Chinese Don't Eat and Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother, about mothers and their lost daughters.
She lives in London but travels regularly to China.

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