{"product_id":"mourning-a-breast-paperback","title":"Mourning a Breast - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eXI XI\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJennifer Feeley\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy Xi Xi, part of the first generation of writers raised in Hong Kong, a wise and amiably written book of autobiographical fiction on the author's experience with breast cancer--from diagnosis to treatment to recovery--and her passage from a life lived through the mind into a life lived through the body.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1989, the acclaimed Hong Kong writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her semi-autobiographical novel \u003ci\u003eMourning a Breast\u003c\/i\u003e is a disarmingly honest and inventive account of the author's experience of a mastectomy and of her subsequent recovery. The book opens with her putting away a bathing suit. As the routine pleasure of swimming is revoked, the small loss stands in for the greater one. But Xi Xi's mourning begins to take shape as a form of activism. Addressing her reader as frankly and unashamedly as an old friend, she describes what she is going through; finds consolation in art, literature, and cinema; and advocates for a universal literacy of the body. \u003ci\u003eMourning a Breast\u003c\/i\u003e was heralded as one of the first Chinese-language books to cast off the stigma of writing about illness and to expose the myths associated with breast cancer. It is a radical novel about creating in the midst of mourning.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXi Xi\u003c\/b\u003e (1937-2022) was born in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong in 1950. Over the course of her career, she wrote several books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, as well as numerous screenplays and newspaper and magazine columns. In 2019, she became the first writer from Hong Kong to win Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, and her literary career was the subject of the 2015 documentary film \u003ci\u003eMy City\u003c\/i\u003e. Upon its initial publication in Taiwan in 1992, \u003ci\u003eMourning a Breast\u003c\/i\u003e was named by the \u003ci\u003eChina Times\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the best ten books of the year. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJennifer Feeley\u003c\/b\u003e is the translator of Xi Xi's \u003ci\u003eMourning a Breast\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Not Written Words: Selected Poetry of Xi Xi\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCarnival of Animals: Xi Xi's Animal Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as Chen Jiatong's \u003ci\u003eWhite Fox\u003c\/i\u003e series and Wong Yi's Cantonese chamber opera libretto\u003ci\u003e Women Like Us\u003c\/i\u003e. Her forthcoming translations include Lau Yee-Wa's \u003ci\u003eTongueless\u003c\/i\u003e and Xi Xi's \u003ci\u003eMy City\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of the 2017 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize and a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 7.97 x 5.07 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 09, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51750233211168,"sku":"9781681378220","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9d9b313ef2a0887ebede447da4adbaa1.webp?v=1779946484","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/mourning-a-breast-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}