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When Fox is a Thousand is a lyrical, magical novel, rich with poetry and folklore and elements of the fairytale. Larissa Lai interweaves three narrative voices and their attendant cultures: an elusive fox growing toward wisdom and her 1000 birthday, the ninth-century Taoist poet/nun Yu Hsuan-Chi (a real person executed in China for murder), and the oddly named Artemis, a young Asian-American woman living in contemporary Vancouver.With beautiful and enchanting prose, and a sure narrative hand, Lai combines Chinese mythology, the sexual politics of medieval China, and modern-day Vancouver to masterfully revise the myth of the Fox (a figure who can inhibit women’s bodies in order to cause mischief).
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When Fox Is a Thousand, Larissa Lai
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2004
- Encuadernación
- (Tapa blanda)
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- Título
- When Fox Is a Thousand
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Larissa Lai
- Editorial
- arsenal pulp press
- Publicado en
- 2004
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 272
- ISBN10
- 1551521687
- ISBN13
- 9781551521688
- Serie
- Categorías
- Etiquetas
- LGBTQ+, Canadá, Realismo mágico
- Descripción
- When Fox is a Thousand is a lyrical, magical novel, rich with poetry and folklore and elements of the fairytale. Larissa Lai interweaves three narrative voices and their attendant cultures: an elusive fox growing toward wisdom and her 1000 birthday, the ninth-century Taoist poet/nun Yu Hsuan-Chi (a real person executed in China for murder), and the oddly named Artemis, a young Asian-American woman living in contemporary Vancouver.With beautiful and enchanting prose, and a sure narrative hand, Lai combines Chinese mythology, the sexual politics of medieval China, and modern-day Vancouver to masterfully revise the myth of the Fox (a figure who can inhibit women’s bodies in order to cause mischief).