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Wayson Choy

    20 aprile 1939 – 28 aprile 2019

    Wayson Choy ha esplorato le complessità delle relazioni familiari e dell'identità culturale nella sua scrittura. Il suo stile letterario è caratterizzato da un'acuta osservazione della natura umana e dalla capacità di catturare i momenti quieti della vita. Attraverso le sue opere, approfondisce temi come la memoria, la perdita e la ricerca di appartenenza. La scrittura di Choy offre profonde intuizioni sull'esperienza dell'immigrato e su come essa plasmi la nostra comprensione del mondo.

    Die Pfingstrose aus Jade
    Paper shadows. A Chinatown memoir
    • Paper shadows. A Chinatown memoir

      • 342pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      In 1995, during the publicity tour for his much-acclaimed first novel, "The Jade Peony," Wayson Choy received a mysterious phone call from a woman claiming to have just seen his mother on a streetcar. He politely informed the caller that she must be mistaken, since his mother had died long ago. "No, no, not that mother," the voice insisted. "Your real mother." Inspired by the startling realization that, like many children of Chinatown, he had been adopted, Choy constructs a vivid and moving memoir that reveals uncanny similarities between his award-winning first novel and the newly discovered secrets of his Vancouver childhood. From his early experiences with ghosts, through his youthful encounters with cowboys and bachelor uncles, to his discovery of family secrets that crossed the ocean from mainland China to Gold Mountain in the form of paper shadows, this is a beautifully wrought portrait of a child's world from one of Canada's most gifted storytellers.

      Paper shadows. A Chinatown memoir2005
      3,7
    • Die Pfingstrose aus Jade

      • 303pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      Chinatown, Vancouver, in den späten 1930er und 1940er Jahren bildet den Hintergrund für diesen bewegenden Debütroman, der durch die lebhaften und intensiven Erinnerungen der drei jüngeren Kinder einer Einwandererfamilie erzählt wird. Sie erleben jeweils eine sehr unterschiedliche Kindheit, abhängig von Alter und Geschlecht, während sie mit den Komplexitäten von Geburt und Tod, Liebe und Hass, Verwandtschaft und Andersartigkeit konfrontiert werden. Vermischt mit den Realitäten Kanadas und dem Grauen des Krieges sind die Magie, Geister, Papieronkels und Familiengeheimnisse von Poh-Poh, der Großmutter, die das Herz und die Säule der Familie ist. Wayson Choys Chinatown ist eine Gemeinschaft unvergesslicher Individuen, die "weder das noch dies" sind, weder ganz kanadisch noch ganz chinesisch. Doch mit der Hilfe voneinander überstehen sie Entbehrungen und Herzschmerz mit Mut und Humor.

      Die Pfingstrose aus Jade1997
      4,0