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Swimming Back to Trout River Ex-Library Copy by Linda R Feng (2021, Hardcover)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller notes
- “Ex-Library Copy - Great Read - Great Condition”
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- ISBN
- 9781982129392
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1982129395
ISBN-13
9781982129392
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16050390824
Product Key Features
Book Title
Swimming Back to Trout River : a Novel
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Sagas, Literary, Asian American
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
13.3 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2020-942157
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a husband and wife are afraid to share their deepest longings and regrets. With disarmingly quiet prose, Feng digs beneath Cassia's and Momo's reluctance to mine their emotional depths as they struggle to grasp their individual experiences as well as their fractured relationship. Filled with tragedy yet touched with life-affirming passion." -- KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW) "Feng's debut is about a ten-year-old girl in a small Chinese village in 1986 whose parents live in America and have promised to return by her twelfth birthday. A novel about longing and secrets and immigrant compromises, one Garth Greenwell calls one of the most beautiful debuts he's read in years." -- ELECTRIC LIT (44 BOOKS BY WOMEN OF COLOR TO READ IN 2021) "Linda Rui Feng's Swimming Back to Trout River is a beautifully written, poignant exploration of family, art, culture, immigration and most of all, love. I was swept away by Feng's fierce intelligence and keen insight even as her characters captured my heart with their tender hopes and bold actions. A gorgeous book that I couldn't put down." --JEAN KWOK, author of Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation "What can account for the astonishing emotional force of this debut novel? Maybe it's that Linda Rui Feng understands her characters with an intimacy one seldom encounters, or the sense one has that she loves them so much. Or maybe it's Feng's exceedingly rare gift for putting language to feelings so profound, and so exquisitely observed, that they escape all readymade names. Everything in this gorgeously orchestrated novel surprises, everything outraces expectation. Swimming Back to Trout River is one of the most beautiful debuts I have read in years." --GARTH GREENWELL, author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You "Swimming Back to Trout River is notable for the grace of its prose and the harmony of its intertwined narratives, but the essential 'beat' of this wonderful fiction is the heartbeat of its characters, so richly and lovingly brought to life." --PETER HO DAVIES, author of The Fortunes "A beautiful and haunting story about a family's journey, a child's persistence, a couple's love. We all desire more, don't we? Yet we can't always predict what's on the other side. I felt immersed, taken back to a tumultuous and strange time that was full of inconceivable moments and hidden brightness. Feng writes with unflinching grace. She is exploratory yet precise, a narrative powerhouse. Needless to say, the music is poignant." --WEIKE WANG, author of Chemistry "An impressive and thoroughly satisfying debut....This book offers profound insight into human longing: how lives become intertwined and complicated by desire, fear, and memory. Music and its riveting power connects Feng's characters through space and time. The period details are seamlessly woven, resulting in a beautifully crafted work of art with a story that will linger long after the turning of the final page." -- ANN Y.K. CHOI, author of Kay's Lucky Coin Variety, "Linda Rui Feng's Swimming Back to Trout River is a beautifully written, poignant exploration of family, art, culture, immigration and most of all, love. I was swept away by Feng's fierce intelligence and keen insight even as her characters captured my heart with their tender hopes and bold actions. A gorgeous book that I couldn't put down." --JEAN KWOK, author of Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation "What can account for the astonishing emotional force of this debut novel? Maybe it's that Linda Rui Feng understands her characters with an intimacy one seldom encounters, or the sense one has that she loves them so much. Or maybe it's Feng's exceedingly rare gift for putting language to feelings so profound, and so exquisitely observed, that they escape all readymade names. Everything in this gorgeously orchestrated novel surprises, everything outraces expectation. Swimming Back to Trout River is one of the most beautiful debuts I have read in years." --GARTH GREENWELL, author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You "Swimming Back to Trout River is notable for the grace of its prose and the harmony of its intertwined narratives, but the essential 'beat' of this wonderful fiction is the heartbeat of its characters, so richly and lovingly brought to life." --PETER HO DAVIES, author of The Fortunes "A beautiful and haunting story about a family's journey, a child's persistence, a couple's love. We all desire more, don't we? Yet we can't always predict what's on the other side. I felt immersed, taken back to a tumultuous and strange time that was full of inconceivable moments and hidden brightness. Feng writes with unflinching grace. She is exploratory yet precise, a narrative powerhouse. Needless to say, the music is poignant." --WEIKE WANG, author of Chemistry "An impressive and thoroughly satisfying debut....This book offers profound insight into human longing: how lives become intertwined and complicated by desire, fear, and memory. Music and its riveting power connects Feng's characters through space and time. The period details are seamlessly woven, resulting in a beautifully crafted work of art with a story that will linger long after the turning of the final page." -- ANN Y.K. CHOI, author of Kay's Lucky Coin Variety, "Feng's debut is about a ten-year-old girl in a small Chinese village in 1986 whose parents live in America and have promised to return by her twelfth birthday. A novel about longing and secrets and immigrant compromises, one Garth Greenwell calls one of the most beautiful debuts he's read in years." -- ELECTRIC LIT (44 BOOKS BY WOMEN OF COLOR TO READ IN 2021) "Linda Rui Feng's Swimming Back to Trout River is a beautifully written, poignant exploration of family, art, culture, immigration and most of all, love. I was swept away by Feng's fierce intelligence and keen insight even as her characters captured my heart with their tender hopes and bold actions. A gorgeous book that I couldn't put down." --JEAN KWOK, author of Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation "What can account for the astonishing emotional force of this debut novel? Maybe it's that Linda Rui Feng understands her characters with an intimacy one seldom encounters, or the sense one has that she loves them so much. Or maybe it's Feng's exceedingly rare gift for putting language to feelings so profound, and so exquisitely observed, that they escape all readymade names. Everything in this gorgeously orchestrated novel surprises, everything outraces expectation. Swimming Back to Trout River is one of the most beautiful debuts I have read in years." --GARTH GREENWELL, author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You "Swimming Back to Trout River is notable for the grace of its prose and the harmony of its intertwined narratives, but the essential 'beat' of this wonderful fiction is the heartbeat of its characters, so richly and lovingly brought to life." --PETER HO DAVIES, author of The Fortunes "A beautiful and haunting story about a family's journey, a child's persistence, a couple's love. We all desire more, don't we? Yet we can't always predict what's on the other side. I felt immersed, taken back to a tumultuous and strange time that was full of inconceivable moments and hidden brightness. Feng writes with unflinching grace. She is exploratory yet precise, a narrative powerhouse. Needless to say, the music is poignant." --WEIKE WANG, author of Chemistry "An impressive and thoroughly satisfying debut....This book offers profound insight into human longing: how lives become intertwined and complicated by desire, fear, and memory. Music and its riveting power connects Feng's characters through space and time. The period details are seamlessly woven, resulting in a beautifully crafted work of art with a story that will linger long after the turning of the final page." -- ANN Y.K. CHOI, author of Kay's Lucky Coin Variety, "Against the backdrop of China''s Cultural Revolution, a husband and wife are afraid to share their deepest longings and regrets. With disarmingly quiet prose, Feng digs beneath Cassia''s and Momo''s reluctance to mine their emotional depths as they struggle to grasp their individual experiences as well as their fractured relationship. Filled with tragedy yet touched with life-affirming passion." -- KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW) "Feng''s lithe debut moves with grace from Communist China to San Francisco and the Great Plains, and from the 1960s to the 1980s, as it follows four interlocked lives....With the lightest of touches, Feng vividly portrays the experience of living in China during Mao''s rule as well as the pressures of being a new immigrant. Looking deeply into the ''invisible mesh'' that links her characters'' lives, Feng weaves a plot both surprising and inevitable, with not a word to spare." -- BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW) "Feng''s striking debut novel chronicles what happens to a young Chinese family in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. Feng captures humor and grief in equal measures...and she elegantly references Chinese concepts of fate and luck while building toward a poignant conclusion. This resonates from page one." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "Feng''s debut is about a ten-year-old girl in a small Chinese village in 1986 whose parents live in America and have promised to return by her twelfth birthday. A novel about longing and secrets and immigrant compromises, one Garth Greenwell calls one of the most beautiful debuts he''s read in years." -- ELECTRIC LIT (44 BOOKS BY WOMEN OF COLOR TO READ IN 2021) "Linda Rui Feng''s Swimming Back to Trout River is a beautifully written, poignant exploration of family, art, culture, immigration and most of all, love. I was swept away by Feng''s fierce intelligence and keen insight even as her characters captured my heart with their tender hopes and bold actions. A gorgeous book that I couldn''t put down." --JEAN KWOK, author of Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation "What can account for the astonishing emotional force of this debut novel? Maybe it''s that Linda Rui Feng understands her characters with an intimacy one seldom encounters, or the sense one has that she loves them so much. Or maybe it''s Feng''s exceedingly rare gift for putting language to feelings so profound, and so exquisitely observed, that they escape all readymade names. Everything in this gorgeously orchestrated novel surprises, everything outraces expectation. Swimming Back to Trout River is one of the most beautiful debuts I have read in years." --GARTH GREENWELL, author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You "Swimming Back to Trout River is notable for the grace of its prose and the harmony of its intertwined narratives, but the essential ''beat'' of this wonderful fiction is the heartbeat of its characters, so richly and lovingly brought to life." --PETER HO DAVIES, author of The Fortunes "A beautiful and haunting story about a family''s journey, a child''s persistence, a couple''s love. We all desire more, don''t we? Yet we can''t always predict what''s on the other side. I felt immersed, taken back to a tumultuous and strange time that was full of inconceivable moments and hidden brightness. Feng writes with unflinching grace. She is exploratory yet precise, a narrative powerhouse. Needless to say, the music is poignant." --WEIKE WANG, author of Chemistry "An impressive and thoroughly satisfying debut....This book offers profound insight into human longing: how lives become intertwined and complicated by desire, fear, and memory. Music and its riveting power connects Feng''s characters through space and time. The period details are seamlessly woven, resulting in a beautifully crafted work of art with a story that will linger long after the turning of the final page." -- ANN Y.K. CHOI, author of Kay''s Lucky Coin Variety
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE A lyrical novel set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution that follows a father's quest to reunite his family before his precocious daughter's momentous birthday, which Garth Greenwell calls "one of the most beautiful debuts I've read in years." "A beautifully written, poignant exploration of family, art, culture, immigration, and most of all, love." --Jean Kwok, author of Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation How many times in life can we start over without losing ourselves? In the summer of 1986, in a small Chinese village, ten-year-old Junie receives a momentous letter from her parents, who had left for America years ago: her father promises to return home and collect her by her twelfth birthday. But Junie's growing determination to stay put in the idyllic countryside with her beloved grandparents threatens to derail her family's shared future. What Junie doesn't know is that her parents, Momo and Cassia, are newly estranged from one another in their adopted country, each holding close private tragedies and histories from the tumultuous years of their youth during China's Cultural Revolution. While Momo grapples anew with his deferred musical ambitions and dreams for Junie's future in America, Cassia finally begins to wrestle with a shocking act of brutality from years ago. In order for Momo to fulfill his promise, he must make one last desperate attempt to reunite all three members of the family before Junie's birthday--even if it means bringing painful family secrets to light. Swimming Back to Trout River weaves together the stories of Junie, Momo, Cassia, and Dawn--a talented violinist from Momo's past--while depicting their heartbreak and resilience, tenderly revealing the hope, compromises, and abiding ingenuity that make up the lives of immigrants. Feng's debut is "filled with tragedy yet touched with life-affirming passion" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review), and "Feng weaves a plot both surprising and inevitable, with not a word to spare" ( Booklist, starred review)., A lyrical novel set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution that follows a father's quest to reunite his family before his precocious daughter's momentous birthday.
LC Classification Number
PS3606
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