The Fifth Book of Peace
Download or Read eBook The Fifth Book of Peace PDF written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-09-28 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Maxine Hong Kingston |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2004-09-28 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780679760634 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0679760636 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Fifth Book of Peace by : Maxine Hong Kingston
Book excerpt: A long time ago in China, there existed three Books of Peace that proved so threatening to the reigning powers that they had them burned. Many years later Maxine Hong Kingston wrote a Fourth Book of Peace, but it too was burned--in the catastrophic Berkeley-Oakland Hills fire of 1991, a fire that coincided with the death of her father. Now in this visionary and redemptive work, Kingston completes her interrupted labor, weaving fiction and memoir into a luminous meditation on war and peace, devastation and renewal.
