Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China
A Chinese woman who emigrates to the United States splits her life into Mulberry and Peach in order to survive what she has seen. The novel turns exile, memory, and divided identity into an intricate portrait of dislocation.
Work Information
Two selves, Mulberry and Peach, struggle inside one life.
Hualing Nieh's novel follows a woman marked by war and migration as she creates a second self in order to survive in America. Its inventive structure weaves together female subjectivity, cultural rupture, and psychological division.
Book Information
- Publisher
- The Feminist Press at CUNY
- Published
- 1998-03-20
- Pages
- 224 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.72 x 1.52 x 21.34 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781558611825
- ISBN-10
- 1558611827
- Price
- 4287 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Historical
This extraordinary novel, winner of a 1990 American Book Award, recounts the story of two womenMulberry and Peachwho are really one. Mulberry is a young woman who has fled the turmoil of postwar China to settle in the United States. Unable to forget the terrors she has witnessed or resolve the conflicts between her new life and her old, she develops a second personality: fearless, tough-talking, sexually uninhibited, Peach. While Mulberry clings to her cultural and ethical roots, Peach renounces her past to embrace the American way of life with a vengeance. Brilliantly innovative in style, Mulberry and Peach offers a rare women's perspective on the upheavals of modern China, and presents an unforgettable portrait of the pain of cultural dislocation and the anguish of psychological disintegration.
Hualing Nieh co-founded the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
Reviews
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Found this to be so poorly written that it hurt my brain and I resented losing the time I spent just tring to give it a chance. Save your money. Catherine
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Hard to keep charters and places straight. Lacks real story. Did not Enjoy it. Mental problems wrongly addressed. Poor reading choice