Min, Anchee

New York. 1995. May 1995. Riverhead/Putnam. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1573220051. 243 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Lisa Amoroso. Front jacket photograph by Anthony Loew based on a photograph by Anchee Min. keywords: Literature China Asia Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - An American woman comes to China to teach English just as that country opens its doors, six years after the death of Chairman Mao. Her clothes, her hair, her charm - the stories she tells of an American childhood, the lessons in casual conversation and pop music - awaken in the men and women she tutors a yearning for the tantalizing West and an unknowable eroticism. She is a witting and unwitting seductress who cannot conceive that when she enters into a love triangle with two of her students - one male, one female - its consequences will be insidious and inexorably tragic. To this tale of passion and sexual awakening, set amid a generation that came of age during the brutality of the Cultural Revolution, Anchee Min brings the same narrative flair and exhilarating prose (‘as delicate as a traditional Chinese painting,' says Newsweek) that won her such extraordinary praise for her life story, RED AZALEA. The publication of RED AZALEA was an event of both world-class literary and historical significance, for never before had a Chinese, much less a Chinese woman, written more honestly and vividly of the strangled cry of the heart in that country's most desperate time. In KATHERINE, Min writes of the clash of centuries - old mystical traditions and modern American ways, of love and betrayal, and of both the balm and destruction obsession offers. Anchee Min's fiction debut confirms her arrival as a writer of singular importance. inventory #21423 ISBN: 1573220051.