Two Trees Make a Forest
On Memory, Migration and Taiwan
$42.22
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
24 November 2020
Summary
I have learned many words for ‘island’: isle, atoll, eyot, islet, or skerry. They exist in archipelagos or alone, and always, by definition, I have understood them by their relation to water. But the Chinese word for island knows nothing of water. For a civilisation grown inland from the sea, the vastness of mountains was a better analogue: (dao, ‘island’) built from the relationship between earth and sky.
Between tectonic plates and conflicting cultures, Taiwan is an island of extrem…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349011042 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349011044 |
| Author: | Jessica J. Lee |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 24 November 2020 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 124mm x 22mm |
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Both clear-eyed and tender hearted, Two Trees Make a Forest is a profound and gorgeously written meditation on the natural and familial environments that shape us. Jessica J Lee is a poetic talent keenly attentive to the mysterious and sublime - Robert Macfarlane
A beautiful, fully-realised tribute to a family and a brave, diligent search for understanding in the mist - Amy LiptrotA subtle, powerful exploration of the relationship between people and place, and a luminous evocation of an extraordinary landscape - Melissa HarrisonTwo Trees Make a Forest takes a twisting path through mountain passes, over tree roots, by spoon billed birds and into a family’s past. In this thoughtful memoir, Lee asks the reader to wonder, what makes a homeland? Is it language, family, landscape? I was left with a full heart and a longing to learn the name of each tree that lines my own past - Rowan Hisayo BuchananBoth clear-eyed and tender hearted, Two Trees Make a Forest is a profound and gorgeously written meditation on the natural and familial environments that shape us. Jessica J Lee is a poetic talent keenly attentive to the mysterious and sublime - Sharlene TeoAbout The Author
Jessica J. Lee
Jessica J. Lee is a British-Canadian-Taiwanese author, environmental historian, and winner of the RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Author Award. She received a doctorate in environmental history and aesthetics in 2016, and her first book, Turning, was published in 2017. Jessica is the founding editor of The Willowherb Review. She lives in Berlin.
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