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BABA: A Return to China Upon My Father's Shoulders.
de Yang, Belle. Preface by Amy Tan
- Usado
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Very good+ (covers slightly bent).
- ISBN 10
- 0151000638
- ISBN 13
- 9780151000630
- Librería
-
Ione, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York:: Harcourt Brace & Company,, (1996). SIGNED -. Very good+ (covers slightly bent).. 1st trade paperback printing. The artist / author's first book, one in which she retells her father`s story of his coming-of-age in northern China in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the fourth son of a prominent Manchurian family and his odyssey included the years of the Japanese occupation of China, the Russian onslaught upon Northeastern China and the civil war that followed. Illustrated throughout with beautiful full page watercolor paintings by the author as well as many black and white drawings. Preface by Amy Tan. Boldly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication, with a drawing of a cat by Yang. Large square format. 211 pp plus a final portrait of her father.
Sinopsis
Baba ("papa" in Chinese) recounts the colorful childhood tales of Yang's father, who grew up at a time of great political and social upheaval in China. Behind the protective walls of the House of Yang, Baba is immersed in a world of the legends and colorful characters of village life. Yang's beautiful watercolors accompany each story and create "an astonishing personal vision" (Kirkus Reviews, pointer). Preface by Amy Tan; illustrations.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 72854
- Título
- BABA: A Return to China Upon My Father's Shoulders.
- Autor
- Yang, Belle. Preface by Amy Tan
- Formato/Encuadernación
- SIGNED -
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very good+ (covers slightly bent).
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0151000638
- ISBN 13
- 9780151000630
- Editorial
- Harcourt Brace & Company,
- Lugar de publicación
- New York:
- Fecha de publicación
- (1996)
- Palabras clave
- first book, family history, art, chinese history, memoir, illustrated,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Asian and Asian American;
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