The Woman Warrior

This is a delightful book … tells more than I ever imagined about the strangeness of being Chinese and a woman; it also gives a superb account of what it’s like simply to be alive – Victoria Radin * New Society *A strange, enchanting book … As a manual of self-discovery through the channels and terrors of one’s own rejected communal memory, it is unbeatable * The Guardian *As a dream - of the ”female avenger” - it is dizzying, elemental, a poem turned into a sword … reimagining the past with such dark beauty, such precision and anger that you feel you have saddled the Tao dragon and see all through the fiery eye of God – John Leonard * The New York Times *A book of fierce clarity and originality * Newsweek *It [has] crossed cultural boundaries and fused literary genres in startlingly original ways * The Guardian *

Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese-American writer of fiction and non-fiction. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.