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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Poëzie

Sonia Sanchez – This Is Not a Small Voice

Sonia Sanchez This Is Not a Small Voice review, recensie en informatie boek met een selectie van de gedichten van de Afro-Amerikaanse dichteres. Op 28 augustus 2025 verschijnt als Penguin Modern Classic het boek met selected poems van Sonia Sanchez. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Sonia Sanchez This Is Not a Small Voice review en recensie

  • “The poetry of Sonia Sanchez is full of power and yet always clean and uncluttered. It makes you wish you had thought those thoughts, felt those emotions, and, above all, expressed them so effortlessly and so well.” (Chinua Achebe)
  • “Only a poet with an innocent heart can exorcise so much pain with so much beauty.” (Isabel Allende)
  • “A lion in literature’s forest.” (Maya Angelou)

Sonia Sanchez This Is Not a Small Voice

This Is Not a Small Voice

Selected Poems

  • Auteur: Sonia Sanchez (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: gedichten, poëzie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Verschijnt: 28 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 176 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 10,99 / £ 5,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek met gedichten van Sonia Sanchez

hear your voice
a wild sea pausing in the wind

Few poets in history have possessed the irrepressible humanity and abundant positivity that characterize Sonia Sanchez’s astonishing body of work.

Energetic, infectious and rich with sonic exuberance, Sanchez’s poems have radically transformed the direction of American poetry over the past six decades and have been an inspiration to readers around the world, including Toni Morrison and Chinua Achebe. Whether it’s her iconic haiku, rhythmic ballads or devastating elegies, Sanchez’s luminous verse thrums with a profound generosity and an international consciousness, rendering all of life’s agony and ecstasy.

This volume draws on Sanchez’s diverse repertoire to showcase the multiplicities of the poet’s voice – the profound and personal, the firebrand and socially conscious, the playful and formally dextrous, and the musical – to celebrate her as one of the world’s most skilled and versatile poets of the past half century.

Sonia Sanchez was born on 8 september 1934 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States as Wilsonia Benita Driver. She is a poet, playwright, educator, activist, and one of the founders of the Black Arts movement. She is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, including Does Your House Have Lions?, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Homegirls & Handgrenades, which won an American Book Award. She has also received many other awards including the Robert Creeley Award, the Frost Medal, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives in Philadelphia.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Verenigde Staten, Verfilmde roman, Western roman

Elmore Leonard – Valdez Is Coming

Elmore Leonard Valdez Is Coming review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse Western roman uit 1970. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman Valdez is Coming van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Elmore Leonard. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de Westernroman is niet verkrijgbaar. De roman is 1971 verfilmd door regisseur Edwin Sherin met in de hoofdrollen Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Richard Jordan en Jon Cypher.

Elmore Leonard Valdez is Coming review en recensie

  • “This is a shot of pure Wild West pleasure, and you instantly know you’re in the hands of an expert storyteller, with a galloping thrill-ride across the mesa lying before you. Highly recommended for fans of the genre.” (Grass and Vanilla)

Elmore Leonard Valdez Is Coming

Valdez Is Coming

  • Auteur: Elmore Leonard (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse western roman uit 1970
  • Taal: Engels
  • Eerste uitgever: Fawcett Gold Medal Books
  • Uitgever heruitgave: Penguin
  • Verschijnt: 6 november 2025
  • Omvang: 176 pagina’s
  • Prijs: £ 9,99
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (zeer goed)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de westernroman van Elmore Leonard uit 1970

Valdez is Comingis a stunning tale of morality and justice in which a simple, honest man is transformed into a killer – and begins a long journey of revenge against those who scarred his soul for ever.

Elmore Leonard’s Western novels stand as some of the most vivid writing of his career. With all of his trademark sharp dialogue and set against a beautifully evoked landscape, this is a classic work that captures the wild and glorious spirit of the American West.

Elmore Leonard was born on 11 October 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He  began his long and extraordinary career as a writer of Westerns, most famously a story which was made into the film 3:10 To Yuma. He then became known for his remarkable sequence of crime novels, generally set in Michigan or Florida. A master of funny and threatening dialogue, his influence has been incalculable. Leonard received the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN US and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Leonard died on 20 August 2013 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, aged 87.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, autobiografische roman, Erotische roman

Henry Miller – Sexus

Henry Miller Sexus review, recensie en informatie autobiografische roman uit 1949 van de Amerikaanse schrijver en deel 1 van de The Rosy Crucifixion trilogie. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman Sexus van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Henry Miller die in 1949 verscheen en door de expliciete erotische inhoud een schandaal veroorzaakte. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman ook Sexus en is in verschillende edities verschenen maar op dit moment alleen antiquarisch verkrijgbaar.

Henry Miller Sexus review en recensie

  • “There’s nothing like Henry Miller when he gets rolling … The Rosy Crusifixion is his most ambitious work and some of his best writing.” (Norman Mailer)
  • “A huge, sprawling narrative of Miller’s life in New York, ‘Sexus’ culminates in a description of an orgy as remarkable for its account of the author’s powers of sexual endurance as for its versatility. Interspersed are descriptions of his friends, some of them extremely funny and all of them lively. The lack of inhibition and genteel or moral restraint with which Miller describes these various characters gives ‘Sexus’ a unique vitality. Miler cannot be pompous, a rare virtue, and his honesty is absolute.” (Spectator)

Henry Miller Sexus

Sexus

The Rosy Crusifixion 1

  • Auteur: Henry Miller (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1949
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Omvang: 512 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99 /
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de autobiografische erotische roman van Henry Miller

Sexus is the first volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller’s major life work.

Henry Miller called the end of his life in America and the start of a new, bohemian existence in 1930s Paris his ‘rosy crucifixion’. His searing fictionalized autobiography of this time of liberation was banned for nearly twenty years. Sexus, the first volume in The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, looks back to his early sexual escapades in Brooklyn, and his growing infatuation with the playful, teasing dance hall hostess who will become the great obsession of his life.

Henry Miller was born 29 December 1891 in New York City. He is one of the most important American writers of the 20th century. His best-known novels include Tropic of Cancer (1934), Tropic of Capricorn (1939), and the Rosy Crucifixion trilogy (Sexus, 1949, Plexus, 1953, and Nexus, 1959), all published in France and banned in the US and the UK until 1964. He is widely recognised as an irreverent, risk-taking writer who redefined the novel and made the link between the European avant-garde and the American Beat generation. At the age of 88 he died on 7 June 1980 in Los Angeles, California.

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Engeland, Engelse schrijvers, Memoir, Zomerboeken

Laurie Lee – As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

Laurie Lee As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning review, recensie en informatie memoir uit 1969 van de Engelse schrijver. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de memoir over zijn vroege leven in Gloucestershire na de Eerste Wereldoorlog en in het vervolg verlaat Lee de veiligheid van Slad, zijn Cotswold-dorp, om op reis te gaan naar Spanje. 

Laurie Lee As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning review en recensie

  • “He writes like an angel and conveys the pride and vitality of the humblest Spanish life with unfailing sharpness, zest and humour.” (Sunday Times)
  • “There’s a formidable, instant charm in the writing that genuinely makes it difficult to put the book down.” (New Statesman)

Laurie Lee As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

As I Walked Out One Summer

  • Auteur: Laurie Lee (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: memoir uit 1969
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Omvang: 224 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: £ 9,99 / £ 3,99 / £ 13,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de memoir uit 1969 van de Engelse schrijver Laurie Lee

“The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep’s wool, was the last I saw of my country home as I left it to discover the world.”

Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to travel further a field and knowing only the Spanish phrase for ‘Will you please give me a glass of water?’, he heads for Spain. With just a blanket to sleep under and his trusty violin, he spends a year crossing Spain, from Vigo in the north to the southern coast. Only the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War puts an end to his extraordinary peregrinations.

Laurie Lee was born on 24 Juni 1914 in Stroud, Gloucestershire in Engeland. Hehas written some of the best-loved travel books in the English language. Born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, he was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. At the age of nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain, where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil War. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as he recounted in A Moment of War. He died on 13 May 1997 is Slad, Gloucestershire, aged 82. He published four collections of poems: The Sun My Monument (1944), The Bloom of Candles (1947), My Many-Coated Man (1955) and Pocket Poets (1960). His other works include The Voyage of Magellan (1948), The Firstborn (1964), I Can’t Stay Long (1975), and Two Women (1983). He also wrote three bestselling volumes of autobiography: Cider with Rosie (1959), which has sold over six million copies worldwide, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991).

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Engeland, Engelse romans, Engelse schrijfsters, Familieroman

Penelope Lively – Heat Wave

Penelope Lively Heat Wave review, recensie en informatie roman uit 1996 van de Engelse schrijfster.  Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de zomerroman, de auteur en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.

Penelope Lively Heat Wave review en recensie

  • “Extraordinarily good, intelligent and perceptive… very moving.” (Susan Hill)

Penelope Lively Heat Wave

Heat Wave

  • Auteur: Penelope Lively (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse roman uit 1996, zomerroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classis
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99 / £ 5.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst zomerroman van Penelope Lively uit 1996

Pauline is spending the summer at World’s End, a cottage somewhere in the middle of England. This year the adjoining cottage is occupied by her daughter Teresa and baby grandson Luke; and, of course, Maurice, the man Teresa married. As the hot months unfold, Maurice grows ever more involved in the book he is writing – and with his female copy editor – and Pauline can only watch in dismay and anger as her daughter repeats her own mistakes in love. The heat and tension will lead to a violent, startling climax.

In Heat Wave, Penelope Lively gives us a moving portrayal of a fragile family damaged and defined by adultery, and the lengths to which a mother will go to protect the ones she loves.

Penelope Lively was born 17 March 1933 in Cairo, Egypt. Sheis the Penelope Lively Heat Wave novel from 1996 first editionauthor of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. She is a popular writer for children and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. She was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year’s Honours List, and DBE in 2012. Penelope Lively lives in London.

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Engelse romans, Queer boeken

Radclyffe Hall – The Well of Loneliness

Radclyffe Hall The Well of Loneliness review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de spraakmakende Engelse lesbische roman uit 1928. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman The Well of Loneliness van de uit Engeland afkomstige auteur Radclyffe Hall. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling verkrijgbaar van de roman.

Radclyffe Hall The Well of Loneliness review en recensie

  • “One of the first and most influential contributions of gay and lesbian literature” (New Statesman)
  • “The archetypal lesbian novel.” (Times Literary Supplement)

Radclyffe Hall The Well of Loneliness

The Well of Loneliness

  • Auteur: Radclyffe Hall (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse lesbische roman uit 1928
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Omvang: 512 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de lesbische roman uit 1928 van Radclyffe Hall

The seminal work of gay literature that sparked an infamous legal trial for obscenity and went on to become a bestseller.

The Well of Loneliness tells the story of tomboyish Stephen, who hunts, wears trousers and cuts her hair short – and who gradually comes to realise that she is attracted to women. Charting her romantic and professional adventures during the First World War and beyond, the novel provoked a furore on first publication in 1928 for its lesbian heroine and led to a notorious legal trial for obscenity. Hall herself, however, saw the book as a pioneer work and today it is recognised as a landmark work of gay fiction.

This Penguin edition includes a new introduction by Maureen Duffy.

Radclyffe Hall was born on 12 August 1880 in Bournemouth, The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall Lesbian Novel from 1928 First EditionHampshire, England. After an unhappy childhood, she inherited her father’s estate and from then on was free to travel and live as she chose. She fell in love and lived with an older woman before settling down with Una Troubridge, a married sculptor. Hall wrote many books but is best known for The Well of Loneliness, first published in 1928. She died in 7 October 1943 in London, 63 years of age due to cancer of the rectum and is buried in Highgate Cemetery in London.

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Engeland, Engelse romans, Engelse schrijvers

John Cowper Powys – Wolf Solent

John Cowper Powys Wolf Solent recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Engelse roman uit 1929. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman Wolf Solent van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijver John Cowper Powys die verscheen 1929. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft als titel Wolf Solent en is antiquarisch verkrijgbaar. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

John Cowper Powys Wolf Solent recensie en review

  • “A novelist of great, cumulative force and lyrical intensity… Out of his rhapsodic style and keen attentiveness to nature, he builds a tower of prose to match the firmament.” (Washington Post)
  • “A genius… a fearless writer, who writes with reckless passion.”  (Margaret Drabble)
  • “The novel is a momentous piece of work… of transcendent interest and great beauty.” (The New York Times)

John Cowper Powys Wolf Solent

Wolf Solent

  • Auteur: John Cowper Powys (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse roman uit 1929
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Verschijnt: 18 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 720 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de Engelse roman uit 1929

First published in 1929, Wolf Solent was the first in John Cowper Powys’ great sequence of visionary works of fiction, set in Hardy’s Wessex but a Wessex now ravaged by the impact of the Great War and the curse of modernity. Both a lyrical story of the English countryside and an agonised account of life and love in the shadow of monstrous change, Wolf Solent is a cult novel like no other.

John Cowper Powys was born on 8 Octobre 1872 in Shirley, Derbyshire, Engeland was a novelist and poet. He lived a highly itinerant life, including some years as a successful lecturer criss-crossing the USA and Canada. His major novels include Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance, Weymouth Sands and Maiden Castle. He died on 17 June 1963 in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales, 90 years of age.

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Verhalen, Zuid-Korea, Zuid-Koreaanse schrijfster

Oh Jung-hee – Chinatown

Oh Jung-hee Chinatown review, recensie en informatie boek met verhalen over de stad Incheon in Zuid-Korea. Op 17 juli 2025 verschijnt de Engelse vertaling van het boek met drie verhalen van de vermaarde Zuid-Koreaanse schrijfster Oh Jung-hee. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Oh Jung-hee Chinatown review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Chinatown, het boek met verhalen van de Zuid-Koreaanse schrijfster Oh Jung-hee, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Oh Jung-hee Chinatown

Chinatown

  • Auteur: Oh Jung-hee (Zuid-Korea)
  • Soort boek: Koreaanse verhalen
  • Engelse vertaling: Bruce & Ju-Chan Fulton
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Verschijnt: 17 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 112 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 10,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek van de Zuid-Koreaanse schrijfster Oh Jung-hee

In this emblematic selection of her stories, Oh Jung-hee probes beneath the surface of seemingly quotidian lives to expose nightmarish family configurations warped by desertion, psychosis, and death. In ‘Chinatown’ a young girl living on the edge of the city’s Chinese community comes of age among mundane violences, collisions with adult sexuality and the American occupation; in ‘The Garden Party’ a woman grapples with her conflicting identities of wife, mother and writer at an alcohol-fuelled gathering. Throughout a career spanning six decades, Oh Jung-hee has drawn comparisons to Alice Munro, Virginia Woolf, and Joyce Carol Oates, and is assuredly a trailblazing writer.

Oh Jung-hee is born 9 November 1947 in Seoul, South Korea. She is often considered the grande dame of South Korean literature. Her work has received both the Yi Sang Literary Award and the Dong-in Literary Award, South Korea’s most prestigious prizes for short fiction, and has been translated into multiple languages in Southeast Asia, Latin America, the United States, and Europe.

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Italiaanse roman, Italiaanse schrijver

Carlo Emilio Gadda – The Experience of Pain

Carlo Emilio Gadda The Experience of Pain recensie, review en informatie over de roman uit 1962 van de Italiaanse schrijver. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman La cognizione del dolore van de uit Italië afkomstige schrijver Carlo Emilio Gadda. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek en over de schrijver. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman met als titel De leerschool van het lijden is alleen antiquarisch verkrijgbaar.

Carlo Emilio Gadda The Experience of Pain recensie en informatie

  • “The seething cauldron of life, the infinite stratification of reality, the inextricable tangle of knowledge are what Gadda wants to depict” (Italo Calvino)

Carlo Emilio Gadda The Experience of Pain

The Experience of Pain

  • Auteur: Carlo Emilio Gadda (Italië)
  • Soort boek: Italiaanse roman, debuutroman
  • Origineel: La cognizione del dolore (1962)
  • Engelse vertaling: Richard Dixon
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Verschijnt: 31 oktober 2024
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99 / £ 7,99
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1962 van de Italiaanse schrijver Carlo Emilio Gadda

At the height of Fascist rule in Italy and following the death of his mother, Carlo Emilio Gadda began work on his first novel, The Experience of Pain. This portrait of a highly educated young man whose anger and frustration frequently erupt in ferocious outbursts directed towards his ageing mother is a powerful critique of the society of his time and the deep wounds inflicted on his generation. Set in a fictional South American country, The Experience of Pain is at once richly imaginative and intensely personal: the perfect introduction to Gadda’s innovative style and literary virtuosity.

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Chinese romans, Chinese Schrijvers

Lao She – Mr Ma and Son

Lao She Mr Ma and Son recensie, review en informatie van de roman uit 1929 over Londen van de Chinese schrijver. Op deze pagina is informatie te vinden over de Engelse vertaling als Penguin Classic van de roman 二馬 uit 1929van de uit China afkomstige schrijver Lao She. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Lao She Mr Ma and Son recensie, review en informatie

  • “I enjoyed the book immensely as both a researcher of twentieth century representations of the Chinese in Britain, but also as a reader of fiction.” (Amyjane Barnes)

Lao She Mr Ma and Son

Mr Ma and Son

  • Auteur: Lao She (China)
  • Soort boek: Chinese roman
  • Origineel: 二馬 (1929)
  • Engelse vertaling: William Dolby
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classic
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99 / £ 5,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1929 van de Chinese schrijver Lao She

A deliciously funny and moving comedy-of-manners about a Chinese father and son’s experiences at the height of London’s Jazz Age.

‘He was in London – why be bothered looking at it? Wasn’t it bad enough just being there?’

Newly arrived from China, Mr Ma and his son Ma Wei run an antiques shop nestled by St Paul’s Cathedral, where they try to make a living amid the smog and bustle of 1920s London. As they struggle with money, misunderstandings and the ways of the English – from the overbearing patronage of missionary Reverend Ely to their well-meaning landlady Mrs Weddeburn and her carefree daughter – can understanding, even love, blossom? Both a moving story of the Chinese immigrant experience and a bitingly funny satire on the English, Mr Ma and Son delicately portrays the dreams and disappointments of those seeking a new life in a distant land.

Lao She was born in 3 February 1899 to a poor Manchu family in Beijing. He left China in his mid-twenties to teach Chinese at the University of London, where he stayed for the next five years. Mr Ma and Son was his third and final novel written during his London years, and was serialized in 1929. He continued to teach and write upon his return to China, and became an established and respected author renowned for his humorist style. He ventured into the realm of satire and science fiction with Cat Country in 1932, also published by Penguin. He committed suicide in Beijing on 24 august 1966, a few years after being labelled an anti-Maoist and counter-revolutionary by the Red Guards.

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