Wild Ginger View By Anchee Min
| Title | : | Wild Ginger |
| Author | : | Anchee Min |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 240 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0618380434 |
The beautiful, iron willed Wild Ginger is only in elementary school when we first meet her, but already she has been singled out by the Red Guards for her foreign colored eyes Her classmate Maple is also a target of persecution It is through the quieter, skeptical Maple, a less than ardent Maoist whose father is languishing in prison for a minor crime, that we see The beautiful, iron willed Wild Ginger is only in elementary school when we first meet her, but already she has been singled out by the Red Guards for her foreign colored eyes Her classmate Maple is also a target of persecution It is through the quieter, skeptical Maple, a less than ardent Maoist whose father is languishing in prison for a minor crime, that we see this story to its tragic end The Red Guards have branded Wild Ginger s deceased father a traitor and eventually drive her mother to a gruesome suicide, but she fervently embraces Maoism to save her spirit She rises quickly through the ranks and is held up as a national model for Maoism Wild Ginger now has everything, even a young man who vies for her heart But Mao s prohibition on romantic love places her in an untenable position Into this sexually charged situation steps Maple, creating an uneasy triangle that Min has portrayed with keen psychological insight and her characteristic gift for lyrical eroticism
about Author
Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957 At seventeen she was sent to a labor collective, where a talent scout for Madame Mao s Shanghai Film Studio recruited her to work as a movie actress She moved to the United States in 1984 Her first memoir, Red Azalea, was an international bestseller, published in twenty countries She has since published six novels, including Pearl of China and the forthc Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957 At seventeen she was sent to a labor collective, where a talent scout for Madame Mao s Shanghai Film Studio recruited her to work as a movie actress She moved to the United States in 1984 Her first memoir, Red Azalea, was an international bestseller, published in twenty countries She has since published six novels, including Pearl of China and the forthcoming memoir The Cooked Seed Bloomsbury, May 7 2013 
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The beautiful, iron willed Wild Ginger is only in elementary school when we first meet her, but already she has been singled out by the Red Guards for
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