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Cargando... Dreams of Joy: A Novel (Shanghai Girls) (edición 2011)por Lisa See (Autor)
Información de la obraDreams of Joy por Lisa See
  
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 Although the ending betrays See’s roots in genre fiction, this is a riveting, meticulously researched depiction of one of the world’s worst human-engineered catastrophes.  With each new novel, Lisa See gets better and better. Each work is more tightly woven, richer with information, its characters more memorable than the last....And so it is with "Dreams of Joy," which picks up where "Shanghai Girls" left off, giving us the story of a young Chinese American woman's search for her father and her three-year odyssey in the People's Republic during Mao Tse-tung's Great Leap Forward. The scope of the novel is astonishing — including the ingenious ways Chinese women handled their menstrual periods and the carefully concealed and shocking stories of starvation in the communes, the suffocating collectives into which the country was divided...The novel is front-loaded with all of these revelations, and continues to move extremely quickly until the very end — one of those hard-to-put-down-until-four-in-the-morning books — but happily, the action is not all external Crowd-pleaser See continues the story she began in Shanghai Girls with this compelling account of life inside the People's Republic of China during Mao's disastrous "Great Leap Forward." ...See writes vividly about China's people, places and customs; her descriptions of various state banquets will bring on hunger pangs. That such feasts were served while millions starved is a sobering history lesson in the midst of this engrossing saga about two tiger mothers of an earlier day. Pertenece a las seriesShanghai Girls (2) Contenido enTiene como guía de estudio aDistinciones
"Aun recuperandose de los secretos de familia recien descubiertos, Joy se escapa a Shanghai para encontrar a su padre biologico, el artista ZG Li. Deslumbrada por el, y cegada por el idealismo y la rebeldia, Joy se lanza a una nueva sociedad en la China Roja, haciendo caso omiso de los peligros del regimen comunista. Devastada por la fuga de Joy y llena de miedo por su seguridad, Pearl esta decidida a salvar a su hija. Desde la amontonada ciudad a las aldeas remotas, Pearl se enfrenta a viejos demonios y desafios casi insuperables para seguir a Joy, con la esperanza de una reconciliacion. Sin embargo, ellas se cruzan en su viaje con uno de los episodios mas tragicos de la historia de China que pone en peligro sus propias vidas. "--Publisher.
"Joy runs away to find her birth father and throws herself into the New Society of Red China. Pearl is determined to save her daughter and confronts old demons and challenges as she follows Joy, hoping for reconciliation. As Joy's and Pearl's separate journeys converge, one of the most tragic episodes in Chinas history threatens their very lives." --Publisher. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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