Two Dreams
New and Selected Stories
Nonfiction, History, Asian, Asia, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Women&, Fiction & Literature, Literary
| Author: | Shirley Geok-lin Lim | ISBN: | 9781936932337 |
| Publisher: | The Feminist Press at CUNY | Publication: | August 1, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Shirley Geok-lin Lim |
| ISBN: | 9781936932337 |
| Publisher: | The Feminist Press at CUNY |
| Publication: | August 1, 2018 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Two Dreams draws together the best of Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s short fiction from nearly three decades, most of it never before available in the United States, and includes important new work. The setting of these sometimes wryly funny, sometimes heartbreaking stories shifts from the war-torn, tradition-bound Malaysia of Lim’s childhood to the liberating, but confusing and often harsh United States of her adulthood. Her memory is undiluted by nostalgia, her ear is perfectly tuned to the voices of both her old country and her new, and her eye is sharp to the special dilemmas faced by girls and women.
Two Dreams draws together the best of Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s short fiction from nearly three decades, most of it never before available in the United States, and includes important new work. The setting of these sometimes wryly funny, sometimes heartbreaking stories shifts from the war-torn, tradition-bound Malaysia of Lim’s childhood to the liberating, but confusing and often harsh United States of her adulthood. Her memory is undiluted by nostalgia, her ear is perfectly tuned to the voices of both her old country and her new, and her eye is sharp to the special dilemmas faced by girls and women.
