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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I never thought I’d complain about a novel having too many metaphors but K-Ming Chang takes it an annoying level. When you combine that with descriptions like, “I thought of tonguing out all her teeth” or “We crabbed-walked to her bunk bed.” The reader becomes exhausted. ( ) This was on my 22 for 22 list, I was so exited to read it. The synopsis does not match the book though and I’m actually a bit resentful that what I was promised was so far from what was delivered. There is a brilliant story and an inventive writer here, but it’s buried by relentless - and I mean relentless - obsession with the body. Is that strong enough? No. This book is gross. I got the sense that Chang delighted in disgusting readers as much as possible. “My tongue slipped into her nostril and a pebble of dried mucus dissolved on my tongue. I knew everything she smelled that day” I read that K-Ming Chang was a sophomore in college home for summer break when she wrote this, and honestly, I think that immaturity was evident. Maybe she’s avant garde. Either way I learned that scatological books are not for me. *scatology - interest in or treatment of obscene matters especially in literature I did not know this term existed until Bestiary. I hope not to read anything labeled as this again. P.S. I can’t fault anyone who rated highly. Kudos for finding the story through the viscera! A fever dream of poetry, magical realism, mythology, and generational trauma in the Asian immigrant community. There were so many creative twists and turns but the more experimental aspects of the prose led to a lack of cohesion. The book flowed oddly and didn't give a satisfying sense of completion at the end. The fixation on bodily fluids felt quite gratuitous in many parts. A narrative that is uniquely poetic, this is a book with sentences that convey multiple meanings - at once nuanced and murky. The style manages to make us see the mundane as myth and from multiple perspectives. However, at times it also obscures more than it reveals - I suppose it's a matter of whom the reader is and what kind of background they possess. My four-star rating is based on the groundbreaking way that Chang tackles the multi-generational responses to being an expat/immigrant in a strange and profoundly different country. Perhaps the strangeness of the narrative helps us navigate through the different facets of East meeting West. At times, she waxes with laughter too with sentences like, "I thought bowels were a breed of bird, and bowel movements were how they migrated." A rather difficult read at times, it nevertheless breathes with an astonishing power to enchant. Overall memorable and totally unpredictable. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"One evening, Ma tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body, named Hu Gu Po. She hungered to eat children, especially their toes. Soon afterwards, Daughter awakes with a tiger tail. And more mysterious events follow: Holes in the backyard spit up letters penned by her grandmother; a visiting aunt leaves red on everything she touches; another aunt arrives with eels in her belly. All the while, Daughter is falling for her neighbor, a girl named Ben with mysterious powers of her own. As the two young lovers translate the grandmother's letters, Daughter begins to understand that each woman in her family embodies an old Taiwanese myth--and that she will have to bring her family's secrets to light in order to change their destiny. With a poetic voice of crackling electricity, K Ming Chang is an explosive young writer who combines the wit and fabulism of Helen Oyeyemi with the magical realist aesthetic of Maxine Hong Kingston. Tracing one family's history from Mainland China to Taiwan, from Arkansas to California, Bestiary is a novel of migration, queer lineages, and womanhood"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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