| Title:
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THE COFFIN TREE
A NOVEL |
| By: |
Wendy Law-Yone, Chinua Achebe (Foreword) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£18.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0810151413 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780810151413 |
| Publisher: |
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
19 March, 2003 |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Description: |
A young woman and her half-brother flee a savage political coup in their native Burma, only to find themselves outsiders in America, met with indifference, hypocrisy and cruelty. Following her brother's suicide, the narrator is driven to the brink of insanity by her memories. |
| Synopsis: |
Wendy Law-Yone opens her first novel with the phrase of a survivor, "Living things prefer to go on living." A young woman and her older half-brother are expelled from their home in Burma by a savage political coup. Sent to elusive safety in America, the motherless siblings find themselves engulfed by the indifference, hypocrisy, and cruelty of an American society unable to deal with difference. Her brother's inevitable suicide drives the unnamed narrator into the seclusion of a mental hospital, where memories of her childhood and the strength it ingrained in her are enough to heal her heart and return her to the outside world. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Northwestern University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |