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The Little Red Guard
A Family Memoir
Taschenbuch von Wenguang Huang
Sprache: Englisch

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A Washington Post Best of 2012 pick

"Delightful . . . a book that brings a corner of modern China alive.”—The Wall Street Journal

When Wenguang Huang was nine years old, his grandmother became obsessed with her own death. Fearing cremation, she extracted from her family the promise to bury her after she died. This was in Xian, a city in central China, in the 1970s, when a national ban on all traditional Chinese practices, including burials, was strictly enforced. But Huang's grandmother was persistent, and two years later, his father built her a coffin. He also appointed his older son, Wenguang, as coffin keeper, a distinction that meant, among other things, sleeping next to the coffin at night.

Over the next fifteen years, the whole family was consumed with planning Grandma's burial, a regular source of friction and contention, with the constant risk of being caught by the authorities. Many years after her death, the family's memories of her coffin still loom large. Huang, now living and working in America, has come to realize how much the concern over the coffin has affected his upbringing and shaped the lives of everyone in the family. Lyrical and poignant, funny and heartrending, The Little Red Guard is the powerful tale of an ordinary family finding their way through turbulence and transition.
A Washington Post Best of 2012 pick

"Delightful . . . a book that brings a corner of modern China alive.”—The Wall Street Journal

When Wenguang Huang was nine years old, his grandmother became obsessed with her own death. Fearing cremation, she extracted from her family the promise to bury her after she died. This was in Xian, a city in central China, in the 1970s, when a national ban on all traditional Chinese practices, including burials, was strictly enforced. But Huang's grandmother was persistent, and two years later, his father built her a coffin. He also appointed his older son, Wenguang, as coffin keeper, a distinction that meant, among other things, sleeping next to the coffin at night.

Over the next fifteen years, the whole family was consumed with planning Grandma's burial, a regular source of friction and contention, with the constant risk of being caught by the authorities. Many years after her death, the family's memories of her coffin still loom large. Huang, now living and working in America, has come to realize how much the concern over the coffin has affected his upbringing and shaped the lives of everyone in the family. Lyrical and poignant, funny and heartrending, The Little Red Guard is the powerful tale of an ordinary family finding their way through turbulence and transition.
Über den Autor
Wenguang Huang
Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781594486555
ISBN-10: 1594486557
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Huang, Wenguang
Hersteller: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 210 x 140 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Wenguang Huang
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.04.2013
Gewicht: 0,377 kg
Artikel-ID: 106427116
Über den Autor
Wenguang Huang
Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781594486555
ISBN-10: 1594486557
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Huang, Wenguang
Hersteller: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 210 x 140 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Wenguang Huang
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.04.2013
Gewicht: 0,377 kg
Artikel-ID: 106427116
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