Women of the Silk
A Novel
$38.98
- Paperback
278 pages
- Release Date
2 November 2000
Summary
In “Women of the Silk”, Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women form a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamour in a vast silk factory from dawn until dusk. Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women use the strength of their ambition, dreams and friendship to achieve the freedom they could never have hoped for on their own. Tsukiyama’s graceful prose weaves the details of “the silk work” and Chin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780312099435 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0312099436 |
| Author: | Gail Tsukiyama |
| Publisher: | St Martin's Press |
| Imprint: | St Martin's Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 278 |
| Edition: | 8th |
| Release Date: | 2 November 2000 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 147mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
One of the lovliest first novels published this year.
“Enlivened with an engrossing richness of detail, Women of the Silk provides a revealing look at the life and customs of China … succinct and delicate.” –The New York Times Book Review
“Evocative … warm-hearted.” –Washington Post Book World
“A soft ring of feminism … languorous, almost dreamlike quality.” –Booklist
“One of the lovliest first novels published this year.” –San Francisco Chronicle
“A first novel exceptional for its exquisite writing and for its rich portrait of a woman’s life in a China now lost. Her story is rendered with exceptional grace, with the clear, shining dignity of legend or song; Tsukiyama lends her voice to figures of women emboldened by their dream of growth and personal power.” –Ingram
About The Author
Gail Tsukiyama
Gail Tsukiyama, born to a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, now lives and writes in El Cerrito, California. She has won the Academy of American Poets Award and has had her short stories translated into Italian. She teaches at the Crowden School in Berkeley, California.
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