This week I read Eileen Chang's autobiographical novel, The Fall of the Pagoda (Hong Kong University Press, 2010), which was originally published in 1968 in Chinese. If you've read this blog over the months, you'll know I just love Eileen Chang.Chang's many novels, … [Read more...]
Book of the week–A Tiger in the Kitchen
You know the old saying: it's better to have loved than have never loved at all.That's what I'm feeling now for dishes like Hainan chicken rice and bundles of sticky rice stuffed with meat and vegetables.But it's awfully difficult to crave these dishes and not have ready … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Snakehead
Imagine this journey: Fuzhou-Hong Kong-Bangkok-Moscow-Havana-Managua-Tuscon. Or this: Fuzhou-Hong Kong-Bangkok-Kuala Lumpur-Singapore-Dubai-Frankfurt-Washingon.These aren't round-the-world leisure trips, but the dangerous routes orchestrated by snakeheads to bring illegal … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Foremost Good Fortune
Last week I blogged about attending a book signing with Susan Conley, author of The Foremost Good Fortune (Knopf, 2011).It was so enjoyable to meet Conley and get my book signed. Time escaped me somehow, so I didn't finish her book until after her reading.But it was well … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Orientalist
Twelve years ago I read an article in The New Yorker about 1930s writer Essad Bey, aka Kurban Said. What stayed with me all these years was that Tom Reiss, the author of the article, revealed that Bey/Said was in fact a Russian Jew named Lev Nussimbaum.Reiss expanded the … [Read more...]
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