Book summaryZebra, a woman in her late 20's, leaves a labor camp at the end of the Cultural Revolution and goes to Shanghai. Disillusioned with communism, she lives in a crowded apartment with her family, works in a factory, and goes to language school to learn English. Her teacher, an American named Katherine, possesses a joie-de-vivre that is not only refreshing to her downtrodden students, but positively dangerous. Media reviews"The novel dramatizes the inevitable results when a Westerner laden with democratic notions of the sanctity of choice and individual freedom intrudes in an ancient civilization with a tradition of sacrificing personal preference to the collective good. Someone must be punished for this American-bred folly--'killing a hen to shock the monkeys,' as one of the many vivid Chinese sayings in the book puts it." |
KATHERINEby Min, AncheeFirst Edition
Book desription: New York: Riverhead Books. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 1573220051 . HC/DJ - fine/near fine. Hardcover is clean and unnmarked, a little bumping to spine ends. Jacket has very light edgewear and scuffing/light scratches, not clipped. ; 8vo; "Traveling to China during the Cultural Revolution to become an English teacher, the free-spirited, Beatles' music-loving Katherine awakens in her students a desire for Western lifestyles and becomes caught in a doomed love triangle. A first novel. By the author of Red Azalea. ". [700] .
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