O cenário é a San Francisco dos anos 60, pós-beat, iniciando o momento hippie. Wittman Ah Sing, urn formando de Berkeley, as voltas com as insanidades e exigências da vida a sua volta, na Bay Area, faz suas "viagens", mas não com drogas. Ele viaja em palavras, ficções e histórias, orientais e ocidentais, enquanto tenta entender sua condição de sinoamericano e provável reencarnação do deus Macaco das lendas de Buda. Trabalhando temas chineses, aguçada percepção do real e uma fluencia literciria admircivel, a ensaísta premiada Maxine Hong Kingston faz sua estreia em romance com originalidade, humor e imagens fantásticas que vem sendo comparadas às de Garcia Mcirquez e Salman Rushdie.
O Livro Apócrifo do Macaco Chinês -
Maxine Hong Kingston
Rocco
1967
440 páginas
14h 40m
ISBN-10: 8532500587
Português Brasileiro
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Maxine Hong Kingston
She was born as Maxine Ting Ting Hong to a laundry house owner in Stockton, California. She was the third of eight children, and the first among them born in the United States. Her mother trained as a midwife at the To Keung School of Midwifery in Canton. Her father had been brought up a scholar and taught in his village of Sun Woi, near Canton. Tom left China for America in 1924 and took a job in a laundry. Her works often reflect on her cultural heritage and blend fiction with non-fiction. Among her works are The Woman Warrior (1976), awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and China Men (1980), which was awarded the 1981 National Book Award. She has written one novel, Tripmaster Monkey, a story depicting a character based on the mythical Chinese character Sun Wu Kong. Her most recent books are To Be The Poet and The Fifth Book of Peace.
10 Livros
3 Seguidores
Califórnia, Estados Unidos