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Dear chrysanthemums, a novel in stories, Fiona Sze-Lorrain

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Dear chrysanthemums

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Fiona Sze-Lorrain

a novel in stories

"A startling and vivid debut novel in stories from acclaimed poet and translator Fiona Sze-Lorrain featuring deeply compelling Asian women who reckon with the past, violence, and exile-set in Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore, Paris, and New York. "Cooking for Madame Chiang," 1946: Two cooks work for Madame Chiang Kai-shek and prepare a foreign dish craved by their mistress, which becomes a political weapon and leads to their tragic end. "Death at the Wukang Mansion," 1966: Punished for her extramarital affair, a dancer is transferred to Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution and assigned to an ominous apartment in a building whose other residents often depart in coffins. "The White Piano," 1996: A budding pianist from New York City settles down in Paris and is assaulted when a mysterious piano arrives from Singapore. "The Invisible Window," 2016: After their exile following the Tiananmen Square massacre, three women gather in a French cathedral to renew their friendship and reunite in their grief and faith. Evocative, vivid, disturbing, and written with a masterly ear for language, Dear Chrysanthemums renders a devastating portrait of diasporic life and inhumanity, as well as a tender web of shared memory, artistic expression, and love"--, Provided by publisher

Yi -- means one -- Death at the Wukang Mansion (1966) -- Cooking for Madame Chiang (1946) -- Green (1966) -- A change of wind (1976) -- The invisible window (2016) -- The white piano (1996) -- Reading a table (1976/1996) -- Neither an elegy nor a dream (1996) -- Back to Beijing (2016) -- News from Saigon (1995-1996) -- Dear chrysanthemums (1946/1966-1976/1996-2006)