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Self-Portrait with Ghost
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"A knockout short story collection...Each one of these 10 dizzyingly immersive stories offers up a heady and visceral portrait of what ails us, from isolation and self-doubt, to unrequited love and regret over what might have been, to what it means to be (and to be considered) an American." -- San Francisco Chronicle
Meng Jin's critically acclaimed debut novel, Little Gods, was praised as "spectacular and emotionally polyphonic (Omar El-Akkad, BookPage), "powerful" (Washington Post), and "meticulously observed, daringly imagined" (Claire Messud). Now Jin turns her considerable talents to short fiction, in ten thematically linked stories.
Written during the turbulent years of the Trump administration and the first year of the pandemic, these stories explore intimacy and isolation, coming-of-age and coming to terms with the repercussions of past mistakes, fraying relationships and surprising moments of connection. Moving between San Francisco and China, and from unsparing realism to genre-bending delight, Self-Portrait with Ghost considers what it means to live in an age of heightened self-consciousness, seemingly endless access to knowledge, and little actual power.
Page-turning, thought-provoking, and wholly unique, Self-Portrait with Ghost further establishes Meng Jin as a writer who "reminds us that possible explanations in our universe are as varied as the beings who populate it" (Paris Review).
"Jin’s richly textured, unsparing writing questions whether a self can exist unmarked by the past."
Autorentext
Meng Jin was born in Shanghai and lives in San Francisco. A Kundiman Fellow, she is a graduate of Harvard and Hunter College. Little Gods is her first novel.
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- Allgemeine Informationen
- Sprache Englisch
- Titel Self-Portrait with Ghost
- Veröffentlichung 05.07.2022
- ISBN 0063160714
- Format Fester Einband
- EAN 9780063160712
- Jahr 2022
- Größe H20mm x B228mm x T152mm
- Hersteller Harper Collins USA
- Autor Meng Jin
- Untertitel Fictions
- Genre Belletristik & Unterhaltung
- Anzahl Seiten 224
- Herausgeber HarperCollins US
- Gewicht 368g
- GTIN 09780063160712