Specifications
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| ISBN 13 | 9780393337952 |
| Book Subtitle | A Novella And Stories |
| Book Description | The novella and five stories that make up this collection reveal the lives of immigrant families haunted by lost loves: a ghost seduces a young girl into a flooded river; a mother commands a daughter to avenge her father's death; and in the title novella, a woman speaks from beyond the grave about her tragic marriage to an exiled musician whose own disappointments nearly destroyed their two daughters. |
| Editorial Review | A work of gorgeous, enduring prose. -- Washington Post |
| About the Author | Lan Samantha Chang's fiction has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Story and The Best American Short Stories 1994 and 1996. Chang is the author of the award-winning books Hunger and Inheritance, and the novel All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost. She is the recipient of the Wallace Stegner and Truman Capote fellowships at Stanford University. She also received, from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a Teaching-Writing fellowship and a Michener-Copernicus fellowship. Her many awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, and she was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa, where she directs the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. |
| Language | English |
| Author | Lan Samantha Chang |
| Publication Date | 08-Sep-09 |
| Number of Pages | 208 |
Hunger: A Novella And Stories paperback english - 08-Sep-09
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