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Where The Past Begins

A Writer's Memoir
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
320 Seiten
Englisch
HarperCollins UKerschienen am17.10.2017
From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory. In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate in revealing the truths and inspirations that underlie her extraordinary fiction. By delving into vivid memories of her traumatic childhood, confessions of self-doubt in her journals and heartbreaking letters to and from her mother, she gathers together evidence of all that made it both unlikely and inevitable that she would become a writer. Through spontaneous storytelling, she shows how a fluid fictional state of mind unleashed near-forgotten memories that became the emotional nucleus of her novels. Tan explores shocking truths uncovered by family memorabilia - the real reason behind an I.Q. test she took at age six, why her parents lied about their education, mysteries surrounding her maternal grandmother - and, for the first time publicly, writes about her complex relationship with her father, who died when she was fifteen. Written with candour and characteristic humour, Where the Past Begins takes readers into the idiosyncratic workings of her writer's mind, a journey that explores memory, imagination, and truth.mehr
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KlappentextFrom New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory. In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate in revealing the truths and inspirations that underlie her extraordinary fiction. By delving into vivid memories of her traumatic childhood, confessions of self-doubt in her journals and heartbreaking letters to and from her mother, she gathers together evidence of all that made it both unlikely and inevitable that she would become a writer. Through spontaneous storytelling, she shows how a fluid fictional state of mind unleashed near-forgotten memories that became the emotional nucleus of her novels. Tan explores shocking truths uncovered by family memorabilia - the real reason behind an I.Q. test she took at age six, why her parents lied about their education, mysteries surrounding her maternal grandmother - and, for the first time publicly, writes about her complex relationship with her father, who died when she was fifteen. Written with candour and characteristic humour, Where the Past Begins takes readers into the idiosyncratic workings of her writer's mind, a journey that explores memory, imagination, and truth.
ZusammenfassungFrom New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory. In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate in revealing the truths and inspirations that underlie her extraordinary fiction.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-00-758555-7
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2017
Erscheinungsdatum17.10.2017
Seiten320 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht481 g
Artikel-Nr.42332224
Rubriken
GenreRomane Hardcover

Autor

Amy Tan wurde 1952 als Tochter chinesischer Auswanderer in Oakland, Kalifornien, geboren. Ihr Vater und ihr Bruder starben, als sie fünfzehn Jahre alt war. Ihre Mutter, Tochter einer wohlhabenden Familie in Shanghai, musste drei Töchter aus erster Ehe in China zurücklassen. Mittlerweile gehört Amy Tan zu den erfolgreichsten amerikanischen Schriftstellerinnen. Mit ihren Büchern 'Die Frau des Feuergottes' und 'Töchter des Himmels', die in 25 Sprachen übersetzt wurden, erreichte sie ein Millionenpublikum. Amy Tan lebt heute mit ihrem Mann in San Francisco und New York.