Meditations on the Mother Tongue - Tran, An
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A deaf child discovers to her delight that she can communicate with zoo gorillas in her native language. An old man grieving for his departed wife looks to the giant turtle in Hanoi's sacred lake for solace, believing it to be a god. An American scientist searches the mountains and rivers of Sumatra for signs of an otter believed to be extinct. A young man finds a surprising connection to his Vietnamese heritage when he takes up the acrobatic sport of parkour, motivating him to re-learn his forgotten first language. In rich and vivid prose across twelve stories, men and women are displaced…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
A deaf child discovers to her delight that she can communicate with zoo gorillas in her native language. An old man grieving for his departed wife looks to the giant turtle in Hanoi's sacred lake for solace, believing it to be a god. An American scientist searches the mountains and rivers of Sumatra for signs of an otter believed to be extinct. A young man finds a surprising connection to his Vietnamese heritage when he takes up the acrobatic sport of parkour, motivating him to re-learn his forgotten first language. In rich and vivid prose across twelve stories, men and women are displaced from their loved ones, their cultures and their homes, and look to the natural and spiritual worlds in search of anything that can offer a sense of belonging and lasting satisfaction. These are careful meditations on the desire to know one's self and be known by others, where parents and lovers alike appear as gods or as ghosts, dominating and unknowable, and where the bonds between fathers and sons and brothers, men and women, husbands and wives, are built, tested and found lacking.
Autorenporträt
An lives in Canada, just close enough to make a break for it to the Arctic in case of zombie attack. She is an avid hunter of scotch and chocolate. Her deep appreciation of Hello Kitty, and cats in general does not detract from her love of all things gory and violent. Sometimes she reads zombie books to children, and then they think they are mini zombies. She's not really a fiction writer, but wrote this novel for fun, and is still pretty sure she's stumbled into an alternate reality where people want to read what she pulls from the shallow pits of her brain. Every day she tries to blend in at the office while frantically wondering when a zombie is going to shamble out. How DO you kill a zombie with just an umbrella?