Katherine
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Word Count
60,250 words, Guess
Page Count
241 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1270772M
- ISBN-101573220051
- OCLC Control Number31900366
- OCLC Control Numberkatherine00mina
- Library of Congress Control Number95001973
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- Goodreads2720874
- LibraryThing72847
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3563.I4614 K37 1995
Description
An American woman comes to China to teach English just as that country opens its doors, six years after the deal of Chairman Mao. Her clothes, her hair, her charm - the stories she tells of an American childhood, the lessons in casual conversation and pop music - awaken in the men and women she tutors a yearning for the tantalizing West and an unknowable eroticism. She is a witting and unwitting seductress who cannot conceive that when she enters into a love triangle with two of her students - one male, one female - its consequences will be insidious and inexorably tragic. In Katherine, Min writes of the clash of centuries-old mystical traditions and modern American ways, of love and betrayal, and of both the balm and destruction obsession offers. Anchee Min's fiction debut confirms her arrival as a writer of singular importance.
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