Forget Sorrow
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Belle Yang est une citoyenne américaine indépendante qui a grandi en Californie. Malgré des études brillantes, elle se voit forcée de retourner chez ses parents pour fuir un fiancé violent et maniaque. Très éprouvée moralement, c’est dans les récits de son père retraçant toute l’histoire de leur famille et de leurs racines qu’elle va trouver refuge. Au coeur de cette épopée familiale qui traverse toute l’histoire chinoise du XXe siècle, les destins s’imbriquent comme des poupées russes et font écho au vécu de Belle, que son père a surnommée « L’Oubli du chagrin ».
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
With a lilting voice and a strongly etched fairy tale hand, writer/artist Yang weaves a riveting true-life tale of ancestral jealousies and familial woes from her father's recollections of growing up in China. Her book begins with Yang in her 20s, recently graduated from college but unable to get herself out into the world, wounded by self-doubt and bad memories of an ex-boyfriend turned stalker. Back living with her immigrant parents in Carmel, Calif., Yang listens to her father's stories about his grandfather, a man of wealth and stature whose many feuding sons left the family dismally ill-prepared for the winds of change that WWII and Mao's revolution sent violently whipping through the land. Betrayal and infighting pockmark these stories of woe, though they're buttressed with an appreciation of an uncle's Buddhist disavowal of material possessions or desires. Yang's story, which balances her own struggles with those of her ancestors without clumsily trying to equate them, echoes both with the tragic darkness of King Lear and the clean austerity of classical Chinese poetry.
