Ingratitude

by Ying Chen

Book Overview

"I was dying to see Mother suffer at the sight of my corpse," announces the young woman at the heart of this powerful and disquieting novel, which has won acclaim in France and in Canada upon original... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374175543
• ISBN13: 9780374175542
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 153 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

could not put it down

excellent story of control; a mother who has it and a daughter who wants it at any cost even if that price is death.

Wonderful!

This novel is amazing--incredibly moving. The last paragraph reduced me to tears. I read this book over two weeks ago and I'm still thinking about it every day. Highly recommended!

Chinese yet un-Chinese handling of the story line,subtle.

Ying Chen writes with restraint and her novel has a strong effect of suffocation. The author is identifiably Chinese in the depiction of the husband and wife relationship, and un-Chinese in its ever so detached manner of description. The novel is very deep and meaning universal. Excellent reading.