Katherine

by Anchee Min

2021-01-06 14:37:02

This novel, described by the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review as "nothing short of miraculous," is the story of Zebra Wong, a Chinese girl whose pragmatic mind conflicts with her passionate heart; Lion Head, her classmate, whose penchant for roman... Read more
This novel, described by the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review as "nothing short of miraculous," is the story of Zebra Wong, a Chinese girl whose pragmatic mind conflicts with her passionate heart; Lion Head, her classmate, whose penchant for romantic intrigue belies his political ambitions, and Katherine, the seductive American with the red lipstick and the wild laugh who teaches them English and other foreign concepts: individualism, sensuality, the Beatles. In Katherine''s classroom, repression and rebellion meet head-on-and the consequences are both tragic and liberating. Less

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File size8 X 5.1 X 0.6 in
Print pages240
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
Publication date March 1, 2001
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9782290050361
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Anchee Min (born Jan 14, 1957) is a Chinese-American author who lives in San Francisco and Shanghai. At seventeen she was sent to a labour collective, where a talent scout for Madame Mao's Shanghai Fi...

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