Mourning a Breast
$26.91
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2024
Summary
A Radical and Generous Mourning: A Breast Cancer Journey
In 1989, the Hong Kong cult classic writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast cancer and began writing in order to make sense of her diagnosis and treatment. Mourning a Breast, published two and a half years later, is a disarmingly honest and deeply personal account of the author’s experience of a mastectomy and of her subsequent recovery.
The book opens with her gently rolling up a swimsuit. A beginning swimmer,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923106109 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1923106104 |
| Author: | Xi Xi, Jennifer Feeley |
| Publisher: | Giramondo Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Giramondo Publishing Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2024 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 148mm |
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About The Author
Xi Xi
Xi Xi (1937–2022) was born in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong in 1950. Over the course of her career, she wrote several books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, as well as numerous screenplays and newspaper and magazine columns. In 2019, she became the first writer from Hong Kong to win the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, and her literary career was the subject of the 2015 documentary film My City. Upon its initial publication in Taiwan in 1992, Mourning a Breast was named by the China Times as one of the best ten books of the year.
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