- Women graduate students, Chinese, Fiction, New York Times reviewed
"A novel about a young Chinese woman whose graduate studies in chemistry go off track and lead her to discover the truths about her goals and desires"--
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- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Weike Wang, Neus Bonilla Benages
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Knopf, Editorial Empúries, Vintage
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781524731748
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About Weike Wang
Weike Wang is a Chinese-American author of the novel Chemistry, which won the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award.
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