ANCHEE MIN |
As this goes to press, we believe that Anchee Min's reading for her new novel, Pearl of China (Bloomsbury USA), will be the very first in our new Capitol Hill home. Though it is a matter of how the scheduling worked out more than anything, it is also apt that she is a first author to read here as she has read at Elliott Bay for each of her books. Anchee Min's debut book, the 1994 memoir Red Azalea, is still a reader favorite. Red Azalea was followed by another autobiographical work, Katherine, and then the novels Becoming Madame Mao, Wild Ginger, Empress Orchid, and The Last Empress. Pearl of China begins in the late 19th-century, in the southern Chinese town of Ching-kiang, and from there tells the story of a young girl, the daughter of fervent Christian missionaries, who would grow up to be Nobel Prize-winning novelist Pearl S. Buck. Her story is linked with that of a young village girl. "[Anchee] Min, a prime example of an indomitable Chinese woman, has made it her mission to reveal the truth about the lives of women in China, including Madame Mao, Empress Tzu Hsi, and now Buck ... Ardently detailed, dramatic, and encompassing, Min's fresh and penetrating interpretation of Pearl S. Buck's extraordinary life delivers profound psychological, spiritual, and historical insights within an unforgettable cross-cultural story of a quest for veracity, compassion, and justice." – Booklist.
- Street:
- The Elliott Bay Book Company
- Additional:
- 1521 Tenth Avenue
- City:
- Seattle ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98104
- Country:
- United States
