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Two Dreams: New and Selected Stories
The stories of Shirley Geok-lin Lim reflect the complex mosaic of her world. As their setting shifts from the tradition-bound terrain of Malaysia to the liberating but confusing territory of the United States, Lim's stories capture the poignant and perplexing experience of immigrant women, who, torn between two cultures, must build their own values and homelands from within. Two Dreams draws together the best of Lim's short fiction from nearly three decades, most of it never before available in the United States.
Book Details
- Publisher: Feminist Press
- Publish Date: Apr 1st, 1997
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.40in - 0.80in - 0.70lb
- EAN: 9781558611689
- Categories: • Literary• Short Stories (single author)
About the Author
Shirley Geok-lin Lim is the author of Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian American Memoir of Homelands, winner of an American Book Award, as well as Two Dreams: New and Selected Stories, Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems, and several other books. She is a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Praise for this book
"Evocative writing bolstered by insights into colonialism, race relations, and the concept of the 'other' . . . . This is an entrancing memoir." --Kirkus
"Lim writes with such aching precision, revealing and insightfully analyzing changing roles as woman, immigrant, and Other." --San Francisco Chronicle
"[Lim] recounts her journey with a poet's eye for detail and a storyteller's gift for narrative." --Ms. magazine
"[Lim's] fascinating autobiography reads like a novel, with interesting stories stitched into the quilt of her life." --Washington Post Book World
"An extraordinary memoir distinguished by a luminous intellect, painful honesty, lyricism, and humor--the work of a triumphant survivor." --Hisaye Yamamoto, author of Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories