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Loop of Jade
Sarah Howe
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Description for Loop of Jade
Paperback. Crossing the bounds of time, race and language, the author explores a dual heritage, journeying back to Hong Kong in search of her roots. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 8. Weight in Grams: 102.
*WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2015*
*WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PETERS FRASER + DUNLOP YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2015*
There is a Chinese proverb that says: ‘It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters.’ But geese, like daughters, know the obligation to return home. In her exquisite first collection, Sarah Howe explores a dual heritage, journeying back to Hong Kong in search of her roots.
With extraordinary range and power, the poems build into a meditation on hybridity, intermarriage and love ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780701188696
SKU
V9780701188696
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99-16
About Sarah Howe
Sarah Howe was born in Hong Kong in 1983 to an English father and Chinese mother, and moved to England as a child. Her pamphlet, A Certain Chinese Encyclopedia, was published in 2009, and she received an Eric Gregory Award in 2010. She lives in Cambridge and London. Loop of Jade is her first collection, which won the T.S. Eliot ... Read more
Reviews for Loop of Jade
One of the very best books of poems I have read for a long time
complicated and moving and very accomplished.
A S Byatt
New Statesman, Books of the Year 2015
Thoughtful, agile, erudite... [Howe] has a knack for sound and rhyme so delicious you want to say the lines aloud just to feel your tongue ... Read more
complicated and moving and very accomplished.
A S Byatt
New Statesman, Books of the Year 2015
Thoughtful, agile, erudite... [Howe] has a knack for sound and rhyme so delicious you want to say the lines aloud just to feel your tongue ... Read more