When My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon - Softcover

Park, Frances

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099284219 ISBN 13: 9780099284215

Verlag: Vintage, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

When her brother-in-law dies in a freak accident, Marcy Moon rushes to offer support and solace to her older sister Cleo. Their reunion opens the floodgates of family memory, and Marcy is forced to re-examine her childhood hero-worship for her older, glamorous sister, as well as her relationship with her strange, unassimilated mother, her own emotional affairs, and the cultural conflicts that arise from being first generation children of Korean immigrants. Like Amy Tan, Park conjures up her characters, and the clash of old and new cultures, with a faultless sense for where absurdity shades into heartbreak, and with perfect pitch for a whole range of wonderful voices. And there's a delightfully satisfying twist in the tail of the story, as we discover that our narrator - now running from her past in Indian territory in the Nevada desert - is less than reliable, and that her own weird ideas and easy sentiment are not the author's. (20000914)

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"An exciting new voice in fiction" (Fannie Flagg)

"Like Amy Tan and Gish Jen before, Park describes the difficulties facing second generation children - daughters as alien to their mothers as their blonde-haired classmates'" (Independent)

"Fast and racy...Park opens us to the notion that when it comes to family, things aren't always the way they seem" (USA Today)

"Frances Park's gently evocative style is allied to a complex stroy-telling that balances past and present, accurate and deluded perceptions of reality" (Times Literary Supplement)

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'Like Amy Tan and Gish Jen before, Park describes the difficulties facing second generation children - daughters as alien to their mothers as their blonde-haired classmates' Independent

Cleo Moon is beautiful, alluring and fiercely independent. Marcy Moon is all that her older sister is not: plain, studious, and quietly adoring. When Cleo comes home from college, Marcy realises her older sister is no longer the person she once idolised. Their summer together is one of emerging sexuality and a sudden death - events that cloud Marcy's vision of life. Cleo lives harder and faster, leaving Marcy behind, with letters from her absent father and a mother who has never fully assimilated to America. Years later, Marcy is still racing to catch up and when her brother-in-law dies in a freak accident, she rushes to offer support and solace to Cleo.

Their reunion opens the floodgates of family memory, and Marcy is forced to re-examine her childhood hero-worship for her older, glamorous sister, and the cultural conflicts that arise from being first generation children of Korean immigrants.

'Fast and racy...Park opens us to the notion that when it comes to family, thing aren't usually the way they seem' USA Today

'Frances Park's gently evocative style is allied to a complex story-telling that balances past and present, accurate and deluded perceptions of reality' Times Literary Supplement

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0099284219
• ISBN 13: 9780099284215
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256