Jennifer tseng (27 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Finalist for the 2016 PEN AWARD for Debut Fiction Books may be Mayumi Saito's greatest love and her one source of true pleasure. Forty-one years old, disenchanted wife and dutiful mother, Mayumi's work as a librarian on a small island off the coast of New England feeds her passion for reading and provides her with many occasions for wry observations on human nature, but it does little to remedy the mundanity of her days. That is, until the day she issues a library card to a shy seventeen-year-old boy and swiftly succumbs to a sexual obsession that subverts the way she sees the library, her family, the island she lives on, and ultimately herself.   Wary of the consequences of following through on her fantasies, Mayumi hesitates at first. But she cannot keep the young man from her thoughts. After a summer of overlong glances and nervous chitchat in the library, she finally accepts that their connection is undeniable. In a sprawling house emptied of its summer vacationers, their affair is consummated and soon consolidated thanks to an explosive charge of erotic energy. Mayumi's life is radically enriched by the few hours each week that she shares with the young man, and as their bond grows stronger thanks not only to their physical closeness but also to their long talks about the books they both love, those hours spent apart seem to Mayumi increasingly bleak and intolerable. As her obsession worsens, in a frantic attempt to become closer to the young man, Mayumi nervously befriends another librarian patron, the young man's mother. The two women forge a tenuous friendship that will prove vital to both in the most unexpected ways when catastrophe strikes.   Exquisitely written, Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness is part wry confession, part serious meditation. At its most anxious, it's a book about time, at its most ecstatic, it's a deeply human story about pleasure.…

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Zustand: Good. #61. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Cover By Jane Zwinger (illustrator).

Zustand: Very Good. #61. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Cover By Jane Zwinger (illustrator).

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mixed Feelings is a lyrical, genre-bending memoir in essays that traces the life of a queer, Chinese German American woman growing up in a bilingual household in California. With curiosity and emotional precision, Jennifer Tseng explores the questions that shape a life-love, identity, belonging, grief, and the complexities of multilingual and intercultural experience.Moving fluidly between memory, books, and images, she creates a kaleidoscopic narrative that shifts from the domestic to the literary, the private to the social. In these intimate, incisive essays, Tseng reveals how the particularities of her 1970s and '80s upbringing illuminate the world we inhabit now, offering readers a meditation on what is lost, found, and transformed in translation.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Crafted with lines from her late father's letters, Jennifer Tseng's Thanks for Letting Us Know You Are Alive is a portrait of an immigrant, a rootless person whose unspoken lossthat of his native geography, family, traditions, languageunderlies every word. Though her father's first language was Mandarin, for more than twenty years he wrote these letters in English,so that she could understand them. Someare riddled with errors, some nearly unintelligible. Lines from his letters appear as titles and are scattered throughout the poems, blending voices of father and daughter. This collection enacts what it means to lose someone and commune with them simultaneouslythe paradox of grief and all it gives us.…

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Zustand: New. &Uumlber den Autor JENNIFER TSENG is an assistant professor of literature and creative writing at UC Santa Cruz. She is the author of two previous full-length poetry collections: The Man With My Face and Red Flower, White F.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Thanks for Letting Us Know You Are Alive | Jennifer Tseng | Taschenbuch | Juniper Prize for Poetry | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2024 | University of Massachusetts Press | EAN 9781625348081 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.…

Zustand: BUONO USATO. Dal mondo ITALIANO IL LIBRO à USATO, PERTANTO POTREBBE PRESENTARE LIEVI DIFETTI/IMPERFEZIONI. LA FOTO CORRISPONDE AL LIBRO IN VENDITA. Figlia di un economista giapponese e una governante inglese, migrante per discendenza e per scelta, incastrata nelle secche di un matrimonio che ha già da tempo perso ogni ragione d'essere, Mayumi à una bibliotecaria quarantenne su un'isola della costa atlantica del New England. Il lavoro alimenta la sua passione per la lettura e le offre occasioni per pungenti osservazioni sulla follia degli uomini, ma regala poco sollievo alla monotona routine quotidiana. I piaceri pià sensuali le vengono dai libri. Fino al giorno in cui un timido ragazzo diciassettenne entra in biblioteca e Mayumi cede a un'ossessione sessuale che travolge il suo lavoro, la famiglia, tutta se stessa. Un amore proibito, che la porterà lontano da colleghi e amici, lontano da un marito già distante e da una figlia adorata, lontano dal lavoro e dalla vita domestica, eppure dolcemente, dolorosamente vicino a una vita che prima osava vivere solo attraverso i libri, l'altra sua grande passione. Mayumi e il mare della felicità à un romanzo insieme coraggioso ed elegante, affronta temi e argomenti complessi senza alcun indugio, ma riuscendo sempre a tenere le distanze da sensazionalismi, stereotipi e facili scorciatoie. Traduttore: Giugliano, Nello. Numero pagine 304. Il copyright dei dati à di Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl.…