Kim Fu
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Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning author of For Today I Am a Boy,a gripping and deeply felt novel about a group of young girls at a remote camp--and the night that changes everything and will shape their lives for decades to come. A group of young girls descend on Camp Forevermore, a sleepaway camp in the Pacific Northwest, where their days are filled with swimming lessons, friendship bracelets, and camp songs by the fire. Filled with excitement and nervous...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house becomes an impossible, Kafkaesque nightmare. Each story builds a new world all its own: a group of children steal a haunted doll; a runaway bride encounters a sea monster; a vendor sells toy boxes that seemingly...
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English
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"In this debut poetry collection by author Kim Fu, incantations, mythical creatures and extreme violence illuminate small scenes of domestic life and the banal tragedies of modern love and modern death. A sharp edge of humour slices through Fu's poetry, drawing attention to the distance between contemporary existence and the basic facts of life. Alternating between incisive wit and dark beauty, Fu brings the rich symbolism of fairy tales to bear on...
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Series
Language
Español
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Dos circunstancias enfrentan desde el principio a Peter Huang, el protagonista y narrador de esta adictiva novela, con su propia identidad. La primera: ser canadiense de nacimiento, oriundo de Ontario, pero hijo de madre y padre chinos que hablan mejor el cantonés que el inglés. La segunda: ser mujer por sensibilidad y absoluta convicción, pero haber nacido en el cuerpo de un hombre.
De niño, rodeado de tres hermanas, Peter quiere verse y que...