Jen, Gish | BAD BAD GIRL

En berättelse om en mors liv i exil och kampen mellan tradition och modernitet i 1930-talets Shanghai och New York.

• En gripande skildring av liv i exil.

• Utforskar relationen mellan mor och dotter.

• Utgiven som pocket.

Utgivningsdatum: 2026-07-02

Bindning: Pocket

Bokförlag: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9781803513256

Omfång: 352 s.
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2026-07-02

Förlagets information

My mother had died, but still I heard her voice... Growing up in an affluent neighbourhood in 1930s Shanghai, Loo Shu-hsin is told that it is 'no good for a girl to be smart' - and yet when rumours of the revolution reach their enclave, she is the one sent abroad for an education. In New York, she meets Chao-Pei, a Chinese engineering student, and they set out to make a life together. By the time

My mother had died, but still I heard her voice... Growing up in an affluent neighbourhood in 1930s Shanghai, Loo Shu-hsin is told that it is 'no good for a girl to be smart' - and yet when rumours of the revolution reach their enclave, she is the one sent abroad for an education. In New York, she meets Chao-Pei, a Chinese engineering student, and they set out to make a life together. By the time their daughter - Gish Jen - is born, her parents have only sporadic contact with their families, who are locked in repressive Maoist China. And in her struggle to discipline her American daughter, Loo Shu-hsin finds herself repeating the punishing refrains - 'Bad bad girl! You don't know how to talk!' - that punctured her own childhood. Bad Bad Girl is a compelling exploration of a mother's life in exile from one of America's finest stylists.

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