Two Dreams
New and Selected Stories
Published on 1. April 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-55861-168-9 (ISBN)
Description
Two Dreams draws together the best of Shirley Geok-lin Lim's short fiction from nearly three decades, most of it never before available in the United States, and includes important new work.
The setting of these sometimes wryly funny, sometimes heartbreaking stories shifts from the war-torn, tradition-bound Malaysia of Lim's childhood to the liberating, but confusing and often harsh United States of her adulthood. Her memory is undiluted by nostalgia, her ear is perfectly tuned to the voices of both her old country and her new, and her eye is sharp to the special dilemmas faced by girls and women.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55861-168-9 (9781558611689)
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Persons
Shirley Geok-lin Lim is the author of Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian American Memoir of Homelands, winner of an American Book Award, as well as Two Dreams: New and Selected Stories, Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems, and several other books. She is a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.