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Chargement... The Color of the Sky Is the Shape of the Heartpar Chesil
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 'My past is always chasing me. It's a past I can't escape.' The story of 17-year old Pak Jinhee - Westernised as Ginny Park - a troubled schoolgirl, Zainichi Korean and with huge family issues. Now living with an adopted mother in Oregon, the book looks back on Ginny's troubled past - from Japan to Hawaii to mainland US - as she faces expulsion from her American school. It's primary target, I guess, is the YA market, and it was a huge sensation in Japan when it was originally published, but this is a rewarding and important book for a wider market. In an introduction, the translator Takami Nieda notes the book's theme of a sense of 'inbetweenness', of somehow never quite fitting in, something that will strike a chord with many. A moving and ultimately uplifting book, the ending of which some may find a little too neat, but nonetheless a worthy and brave approach to an important subject. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:Now in translation for the first time, the award-winning debut that broke literary ground in Japan explores diaspora, prejudice, and the complexities of a teen girlâ??s experience growing up as a Zainichi Korean, reminiscent of Min Jin Lee's classic Pachinko and Sandra Cisnerosâ??s The House on Mango Street. Seventeen-year-old Ginny Park is about to get expelled from high schoolâ??again. Stephanie, the picture book author who took Ginny into her Oregon home after she was kicked out of school in Hawaii, isnâ??t upset; she only wants to know why. But Ginny has always been in-between. She can't bring herself to open up to anyone about her past, or about what prompted her to flee her native Japan. Then, Ginny finds a mysterious scrawl among Stephanie's scraps of paper and storybook drawings that changes everything: The sky is about to fall. Where do you go? Ginny sets off on the road in search of an answer, with only her journal as a confidante. In witty and brutally honest vignettes, and interspersed with old letters from her expatriated family in North Korea, Ginny recounts her adolescence growing up Zainichi, an ethnic Korean born in Japan, and the incident that forced her to leave years prior. Inspired by her own childhood, author Chesil creates a portrait of a girl who has been fighting alone against barriers of prejudice, nationality, and injustice all her lifeâ??and one searching for a p Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)895.636Literature Literature of other languages Asian (east and south east) languages Japanese Japanese fiction 2000–Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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TW: physical assault, sexual assault, racism
some parts went over my head a little, but the perspective was interesting, not to mention completely new to me. ( )