Fate
Published on 3. March 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
306 pages
978-1-4500-5617-5 (ISBN)
Description
The island of Sanzu is in unknown turmoil. When humans begin forgetting how to respect nature, the spirits of the land begin to wither and die. From the sorrow and suffering of the spirits a deep hatred is born, seeking to destroy everything in its path. Only the birth of a special being spoken of by the ancient keepers can restore balance. But what happens when that one has no recollection of who she is or where she's from? Cheza has lived her life in Sacama village since she was five years old. Her life has been quiet and peaceful until someone precious to her is taken away. From that moment her life begins to fall apart as one thing after another shakes the foundation of her life. Now she must reunite herself with the only blood family she has left and travel the lands of Sanzu, collecting a precious item from the spirits to unite the lands against the evil that threatens them. But will she be able to when it means losing everything she knows and loves?
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4500-5617-5 (9781450056175)
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Person
Lisa M. Hoffman is Professor in the School of Urban Studies at University of Washington Tacoma and faculty in China Studies at UW. Trained as a cultural anthropologist, she describes her interdisciplinary work as anthropology of the urban. Her scholarship has focused on questions of power, governing and social change, with a particular interest in subjectivity and its intersections with spatiality. Research projects include studies of professionals/ism and volunteers/ism in urban China, anthropology of neoliberalism, and regimes of green urbanisms and rural urbanization in China. Her work has been published in journals such as Economy and Society; Territory, Politics, Governance; IJURR, Pacific Affairs, and Hau. Book publications include Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China (2010, Temple UP), Spaces of Danger: Culture and Power in the Everyday (2015, UGeorgia Press, co-edited with Heather Merrill), and Becoming Nisei: Japanese American Urban Lives in Prewar Tacoma (2020, UW Press, co-authored with Mary Hanneman).