A01=Gail Tsukiyama
asian american authors
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Author_Gail Tsukiyama
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Chinese fiction
Chinese historical fiction
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friendship fiction
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silk factory
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womens fiction
womens historical fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9780312099435
- Weight: 270g
- Dimensions: 147 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 15 Oct 1993
- Publisher: St Martin's Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In "Women of the Silk", Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women form a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamour in a vast silk factory from dawn until dusk. Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women use the strength of their ambition, dreams and friendship to achieve the freedom they could never have hoped for on their own. Tsukiyama's graceful prose weaves the details of "the silk work" and Chinese village life into a story of miraculous courage and strength.
Gail Tsukiyama, born to a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, now lives and writes in El Cerrito, California. She has won the Academy of American Poets Award and has had her short stories translated into Italian. She teaches at the Crowden School in Berkeley, California.
