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Hunger

Hunger

by Lan Samantha Chang (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

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Synopsis

Lan Samantha Chang is the daughter of Chinese immigrants who was born and brought up in America. Her stories represent her search for the truth of her identity, the struggle between two cultures. Here the Chinese principles of fate, the spirit world and the importance of family contrast with the logic of American thought, the possibility of success and achievement for oneself. In her novella, 'Hunger', Tian accepts he will never be a great violinist, but his acceptance of his fate eats away at his soul and his family's. In the story 'Water Names', a grandmother tells elliptical folk-tales set against the mighty torrent of the Changjiang and reminds her granddaughters of their river folk ancestors as they fidget away one dry summer in the Midwest. Lan Samantha Chang's gentle unpeeling of layers of identity and culture to reveal the true self is done with a rare and delicate beauty.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 07 Oct 1999
ISBN 10: 0753808145
ISBN 13: 9780753808146
Book Overview: Lan Samantha Chang combines the beauty and vividness of Amy Tan with a more searching, gentle intelligence - she is a writer with enormous potential '[A] powerful new collection of stories ... intense, heart-wrenching ... in this collection she draws on what surely must be personal experience to itemise the complex strings of love, hate, pride and competitiveness that separate as often as they bind sisters together ... Chan exploits the tension between this opaque, fatalistic Chinese sensibility and the breezy openness of the American spirit to write stories that are both spare and emotionally charged ... Chang's delicate descriptive powers are versatile ... [this] dazzling debut collection will leave the reader hungry to read more by Lan Samantha Chang' Observer 'Chang's stories are sad and very moving, focusing mainly on the dilemmas of new immigrant families as they are forced to adapt to a different country, a foreign language and lesser jobs' Guardian

Author Bio
Lan Samantha Chang was born in Wisconsin in 1966. A graduate of the Kennedy School of Public Government, she has since embarked on a writing career, attending the Iowa School of Writing and teaching at Stanford. Her stories have appeared in the best of the American Literary magazines such as The Atlantic, and in top collections such as Best American Short Stories. Inheritance is her first novel.