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Author:	Maxine Hong Kingston	Format:	Softcover
Publisher:	Vintage Books	ISBN-10:	0679760636
Edition Description:	Reprint	ISBN-13:	9780679760634
Category:	--	Publication Year:	2004
Sub-Category:	--	Special Attributes:	--
Condition:	Good

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Kingston's book was written in response to the burning of her home in the Oakland fires of 1991, in which she also lost the manuscript to a novel-in-progress called THE FOURTH BOOK OF PEACE. Incorporating that book into a memoir about the loss of her house, Kingston has created a moving meditation on loss and memory as well as a plea for peace in which she refers to wars old and new, including the Vietnam and Gulf Wars. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
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Series:	Vintage Contemporaries Series

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Length:	401 pages
Height:	8.0 in.
Width:	5.3 in.
Thickness:	0.8 in.
Weight:	11.2 oz.

Publisher's Note
A long time ago in China, there existed three Books of Peace that proved so threatening to the reigning powers that they had them burned. Many years later Maxine Hong Kingston wrote a Fourth Book of Peace, but it too was burned--in the catastrophic Berkeley-Oakland Hills fire of 1991, a fire that coincided with the death of her father. Now in this visionary and redemptive work, Kingston completes her interrupted labor, weaving fiction and memoir into a luminous meditation on war and peace, devastation and renewal.
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"Complicated, convoluted, fascinating and, in the final section, poignant almost beyond bearability, this work illumines one writer's experience of war and remembrance while elevating a personal search to a cosmic quest for truth." Publishers Weekly (05/23/2003) "A colorful meandering that is most original and compelling when it focuses on the author's hard-won peace with her family." Kirkus Reviews (07/01/2003) "...Kingston is a lotus, a flowering of divine intellect, and a bodhisattva, sticking around...to ease our suffering." Harper's - John Leonard (09/01/2003)

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The Fifth Book of Peace

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Binding:	Paperback
Book Condition:	Good
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ISBN:	0679760636
Publication Date:	2004-09-28
Publisher:	Vintage

Pages:	416
Height:	0.9400 inches
Width:	5.2000 inches
Weight:	0.7100 pounds

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