In this ebullient and inventive novel, Gish Jen restores multiculturalism from high concept to a fact of life. At least that's what it becomes for teenaged Mona Chang, who in 1968 moves with her newly prosperous family to Scarshill, New York, where the Chinese have become "the new Jews." What could be more natural than for Mona to take this literally--even to the point of converting? As Mona attends temple "rap" sessions and falls in love (with a nice Jewish boy who lives in a tepee), Jen introduces us to one of the most charming and sweet-spirited heroines in recent fiction, a girl who can wisecrack with perfect aplomb even when she's organizing the help in her father's pancake house. On every page of Mona in the Promised Land, Gish Jen sets our received notions spinning with a wit as dry as a latter-day Jane Austen's.
"A shining example of a multicultural message delivered with the wit and bite of art...Gish Jen creates a particular world where dim sum is as American as apple pie."--Los Angeles Times
發表於2024-12-25
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圖書標籤: 華裔美國 華裔 Jen,Gish 美國 小說 -華裔 英文原版 生活
這麼冷門的書還要寫論文T.T
評分Really don't like this one.....especially when you were asked to write a 1000-word essay about it.
評分少女的煩惱 /真可以寫篇論文:On the Importance of Being a Good Story-Teller 怪不得Amy Tan身價那麼貴!
評分Chinese American girl who plays with her identity by 'switch' and 'perform', arguing that 'American means being whatever you want'.
評分笑。。
Mona in the Promised Land 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載