• Karissa Chen Brings Us A Chinese Love Story

  • Jan 9 2025
  • Length: 33 mins
  • Podcast

Karissa Chen Brings Us A Chinese Love Story

  • Summary

  • Our first book show of the year is a first-time novelist, Karissa Chen. Her new book Homecoming is a novel a portrait in longing, an epoch love story between two characters torn apart by political unrest at the time of the Communist Revolution in China. It’s ambitious, it’s beautiful and it’s one of the best historical portrayals of China’s complex histories we have ever read. Join us! Books mentioned in this week's episode: Homecoming by Karissa Chen Written on the Water by Eileen Chang Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 by DerekWalcott Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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