Hunger
Published on 31. August 2023
224 pages
978-1-911590-67-5 (ISBN)
Description
A modern classic of American fiction: a haunting collection of stories that explore the lost loves and complex desires of Chinese-American immigrant familiesThe novella and five stories that make up this collection tell of displaced lives, and exiled imaginations. Far away from their ancestral home, a grandmother tells her granddaughters stories of their river ancestors. Having relocated to the American Midwest, a young couple purposefully drive all remnants of their lives in China into the shadows. In the title novella, a woman recounts her tragic marriage to an exiled musician, whose own disappointments nearly destroy their two daughters.In exquisitely crisp, spare and subtle prose, Lan Samantha Chang untangles how an immigrant can hunger for love, for acceptance, and for what they have left behind. An undeniable classic of modern American literature, Hunger is a haunting collection of stories, suffused with quiet beauty and longing.
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Lan Samantha Chang is the author of the award-winning books Hunger and Inheritance, and the novel All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost. Her work has been translated into nine languages and has been chosen twice for The Best American Short Stories. A Berlin Prize winner, she has received creative writing fellowships from Stanford University, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Samantha lives in Iowa City, where she is director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her novel The Family Chao is also published by Pushkin Press.
Content
- Intro
- Praise
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- HUNGER
- WATER NAMES
- SAN
- THE UNFORGETTING
- THE EVE OF THE SPIRIT FESTIVAL
- PIPA'S STORY
- Also Available From Pushkin Press
- Available and Coming Soon From Pushkin Press Classics
- About the Author
- Copyright
