Product details
- ISBN 9781487013172
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 133 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 17 Apr 2025
- Publisher: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Paperback
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Longlisted, 2025 Toronto Book Awards
Finalist, Foreword INDIES 2025 Book of the Year
A CBC Best Book of 2025
A sweeping generational story of heartbreak, resilience, and yearning, revealing an insider’s view of the fractured lives of Chinese immigrants and those they leave behind.
Lemei, once a student Red Guard leader in 1960s Shanghai and a journalist at a state newspaper, was involved in a brutal act of violence during the Tiananmen Square protests and lost all hope for her country. Her daughter, Lin, is a student at an American university on a mission to become a true Westerner. She tirelessly erases her birth identity, abandons her Chinese suitor, and pursues a white lover, all the while haunted by the scars of her upbringing. Following China’s meteoric rise, Lemei is slowly dragged into a nationalistic perspective that stuns Lin. Their final confrontation results in tragic consequences, but ultimately, offers hope for a better future. By turns wry and lyrical, The Immortal Woman reminds us to hold tight to our humanity at any cost.
