Celeste Ng
Auteur de La saison des feux
A propos de l'auteur
Celeste Ng was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio. She attended Harvard University and studied English. She went on to graduate school at the University of Michigan and earned her Master's of Fine Arts in writing. While attending the University of Michigan, Ng won afficher plus the Hopwood Award for her short story, What Passes Over. Ng was a recipient of a Pushcart Prize in 2012 for her story Girls, At Play. Her debut novel, Everything I Never Told You: A Novel, is a literary thriller that focuses on an American family in 1970s Ohio. This book won Amazon book of the Year in 2014. Little Fires Everywhere is her second novel, published in September 2017. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Notice de désambiguation :
(eng) The novelist is also the author of Let's Go Western Europe 2002, a travel series written by Harvard students.
Crédit image: 2018 National Book Festival By Avery Jensen - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72705538
Œuvres de Celeste Ng
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1980
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA - Études
- Harvard University (BA ∙ MFA)
University of Michigan (MFA) - Courte biographie
- Celeste Ng grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio. She attended Harvard University and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. Her debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, won the Hopwood Award, the Massachusetts Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and the ALA's Alex Award and is a 2016 NEA fellow. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. To learn more about her and her work, visit her website at http://celesteng.com or follow her on Twitter: @pronounced_ing.
- Notice de désambigüisation
- The novelist is also the author of Let's Go Western Europe 2002, a travel series written by Harvard students.
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Critiques
I really enjoyed this book. Not in the sense that it was a happy story--because it isn't--but because the author does such a wonderful job of presenting a topic we don't read much about or hear about in the fiction genre: interracial marriages and identity crisis. This books offer a different perspective of a topic that, to my knowledge, hasn't been written about enough. Having been a creation of an interracial marriage, I appreciate this book because it offered a view into the lives of those who lived in a time (1960's to 1970's) in which these marriage were uncommon and not readily accepted as they are today.
Additionally, it also addresses the trial and tribulations their children must face from being a "different" family. I appreciated the cultural clashes, the patriarchal hints and revelations, the enormous pressure we all feel at one point in our lives place by our parents, and the effects a death in the family can have in both destructive and constructive ways.
It's a emotional heavy book, but as my friend put it, "The ending is so rewarding."
I can't help but feel that there is a constant air of mystery surround this story; like you can almost understand why Lydia dies, but still catch yourself wondering whether you really do understand why any of what happened, needed to happen in the first place.… (plus d'informations)
Additionally, it also addresses the trial and tribulations their children must face from being a "different" family. I appreciated the cultural clashes, the patriarchal hints and revelations, the enormous pressure we all feel at one point in our lives place by our parents, and the effects a death in the family can have in both destructive and constructive ways.
It's a emotional heavy book, but as my friend put it, "The ending is so rewarding."
I can't help but feel that there is a constant air of mystery surround this story; like you can almost understand why Lydia dies, but still catch yourself wondering whether you really do understand why any of what happened, needed to happen in the first place.… (plus d'informations)
Hoewel dit boek begint met de vermissing van Lydia is dat niet het onderwerp van dit boek. Het boek speelt zich af in 1977, dus de normen en waarden waren heel anders dan nu.
Het gaat meer over hoe de ouders van Lydia hun eigen frustraties over gemiste kansen projecteren op hun drie kinderen, Nath, Lydia en Hannah.
Hun vader is James Lee, een tweede generatie Chinese man, professor in de Engelse taal en literatuur en Marylin. Marylin was zijn studente en toen ze een verhouding begonnen, was Marylin nog vastberaden om dokter te worden. Maar als ze trouwen omdat Marylin zwanger is, moeten de plannen drastisch worden gewijzigd. Marylin probeert haar dochter Lydia in de richting van de geneeskunde te sturen. En doet dat tamelijk dwingend. Met alle gevolgen van dien.… (plus d'informations)
Het gaat meer over hoe de ouders van Lydia hun eigen frustraties over gemiste kansen projecteren op hun drie kinderen, Nath, Lydia en Hannah.
Hun vader is James Lee, een tweede generatie Chinese man, professor in de Engelse taal en literatuur en Marylin. Marylin was zijn studente en toen ze een verhouding begonnen, was Marylin nog vastberaden om dokter te worden. Maar als ze trouwen omdat Marylin zwanger is, moeten de plannen drastisch worden gewijzigd. Marylin probeert haar dochter Lydia in de richting van de geneeskunde te sturen. En doet dat tamelijk dwingend. Met alle gevolgen van dien.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 11
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 17,473
- Popularité
- #1,267
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 841
- ISBN
- 158
- Langues
- 17
- Favoris
- 13
Plot:
In a USA governed by strict laws to preserve American culture, twelve-year-old Bird lives with his father, a former linguist turned librarian. It has only been the two of them since Bird’s Chinese-American mother Margaret left the family three years prior. Bird has learned to disavow his mother and her poetry that has become a symbol for the resistance against the state of politics. But then he receives a cryptic letter that must be from her and goes on a mission to figure out what is actually going on.
Our Missing Hearts imagines a future USA that could very well be its present, exploring the cruelties in and of a totalitarian system in a poetic manner.
Read more on my blog: https://kalafudra.com/2024/07/15/our-missing-hearts-celeste-ng/… (plus d'informations)