[historical fiction] Empire of Glass by Kaitlin Solimine
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Title: Empire of Glass
Author: Kaitlin Solimine
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"A portrait of a soul,"—Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, finalist for the National Book Award
In the mid-1990s, an American teenager, named Lao K in Chinese, stands on Coal Hill, a park in Beijing, a loop of rope in her hand. Will she assist her Chinese homestay mother, Li-Ming, who is dying of cancer, in ending her life, or will she choose another path? Twenty years later, Lao K receives a book written by Li-Ming called Empire of Glass," a narrative that chronicles the lives of Li-Ming and her husband, Wang, in pre and post-revolutionary China over the last half of the twentieth century. Lao K begins translating the story, which becomes the novel we are reading. But, as translator, how can Lao K separate fact from fiction, and what will her role be in the book's final chapter?
A grand, experimental epic—Lao K's story is told in footnotes that run throughout the book—that chronicles the seismic changes in China over the last half century through the...
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"A portrait of a soul,"—Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, finalist for the National Book Award
In the mid-1990s, an American teenager, named Lao K in Chinese, stands on Coal Hill, a park in Beijing, a loop of rope in her hand. Will she assist her Chinese homestay mother, Li-Ming, who is dying of cancer, in ending her life, or will she choose another path? Twenty years later, Lao K receives a book written by Li-Ming called Empire of Glass," a narrative that chronicles the lives of Li-Ming and her husband, Wang, in pre and post-revolutionary China over the last half of the twentieth century. Lao K begins translating the story, which becomes the novel we are reading. But, as translator, how can Lao K separate fact from fiction, and what will her role be in the book's final chapter?
A grand, experimental epic—Lao K's story is told in footnotes that run throughout the book—that chronicles the seismic changes in China over the last half century through the...
DOWNLOAD:
https://rapidgator.net/file/c5726220d2d63b7b939a5fcdc885ada8/Kaitlin_Solimine_-_Empire_of_Glass.
https://k2s.cc/file/67f5d889492cc/Kaitlin_Solimine_-_Empire_of_Glass.
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