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Named a best book of the year by NPR and Publishers Weekly, Hybrida is a stirring and confident examination of mixed-race identity, violence, and history skillfully rendered through the lens of motherhood. "[A] breakthrough book" -Brenda Shaughnessy, O, The Oprah Magazine "A tour-de-force of fury and love." -John Freeman, LitHub

In this timely, assured collection, Tina Chang confronts the complexities of raising a mixed-race child during an era of political upheaval in the United States. She ruminates on the relationship between her son's blackness and his safety, exploring the dangers of childhood in a post-Trayvon Martin era and invoking racialized roles in fairy tales. Against the stark urban landscapes of threat and surveillance, Chang returns to the language of m...

Nach den harten Strapazen an der Front stürzen sich Captain Feng Sia und seine Freunde in der Hauptstadt Seoul ins Vergnügen. Sie suchen Abwechslung und Entspannung in einem Club, dessen verführerische Geishas und coolen Cocktails einiges versprechen. Doch der Freudentempel entpuppt sich als Hauptquartier der Drogenmafia - Prostitution, Erpressung und Mord sind ihr Geschäft. Captain Feng Sia wird Zeuge eines Mordes an einem amerikanischen GI u...

Nach den harten Strapazen an der Front stürzen sich Captain Feng Sia und seine Freunde in der Hauptstadt Seoul ins Vergnügen. Sie suchen Abwechslung und Entspannung in einem Club, dessen verführerische Geishas und coolen Cocktails einiges versprechen. Doch der Freudentempel entpuppt sich als Hauptquartier der Drogenmafia - Prostitution, Erpressung und Mord sind ihr Geschäft. Captain Feng Sia wird Zeuge eines Mordes an einem amerikanischen GI u...

A dangerous thunder, living is.

Tina Chang's poems address the problems of family and heritage, initially inhabiting formally patterned stanzas that mimic the boundaries and bonds that are her subject, and then opening into free(-er) verse as the collection progresses and tries to break out of what has been imposed--both narratively and technically. These are passionate and accessible poems, simple in diction and declaration, elegant in image and syntax.

Language for a New Century celebrates the artistic and cultural forces flourishing today in the East, bringing together an unprecedented selection of works by South Asian, East Asian, Middle Eastern, and Central Asian poets as well as poets living in the Diaspora. Some poets, such as Bei Dao and Mahmoud Darwish, are acclaimed worldwide, but many more will be new to the reader. The collection includes 400 unique voices-political and apolitical,...