- American fiction, American literature, Asian-American authors, Chinese Americans
A young Chinese-American hippie in San Francisco during the late 60s is driven by his dream of writing and staging an epic production of interwoven Chinese novels and folktales, taking the reader on an extraordinary journey through an era.
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- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 340
- Publisher
- Vintage International, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780679727897
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