Two Trees Make a Forest - Jessica J. Lee

Two Trees Make a Forest

On Memory, Migration and Taiwan

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Buch | Softcover
256 Seiten
2019
Virago Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-349-01105-9 (ISBN)
17,45 inkl. MwSt
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Part-nature writing, part-biography and beautifully written, Two Trees Make a Forest traces the natural and human stories that shaped an island and a family.
I have learned many words for 'island': isle, atoll, eyot, islet, or skerry. They exist in archipelagos or alone, and always, by definition, I have understood them by their relation to water. But the Chinese word for island knows nothing of water. For a civilisation grown inland from the sea, the vastness of mountains was a better analogue: (dao, 'island') built from the relationship between earth and sky.

Between tectonic plates and conflicting cultures, Taiwan is an island of extremes: high mountains, exposed flatlands, thick forests. After unearthing a hidden memoir of her grandfather's life, written on the cusp of his total memory loss, Jessica J Lee hunts his story, in parallel with exploring Taiwan, hoping to understand the quakes that brought her family from China, to Taiwan and Canada, and the ways in which our human stories are interlaced with geographical forces. Part-nature writing, part-biography, Two Trees Make a Forest traces the natural and human stories that shaped an island and a family.

Jessica J. Lee is a British-Canadian-Taiwanese author, environmental historian, and winner of the RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Author Award. She received a doctorate in environmental history and aesthetics in 2016, and her first book, Turning, was published in 2017. Jessica is the founding editor of The Willowherb Review. She lives in Berlin.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 135 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Asien
ISBN-10 0-349-01105-2 / 0349011052
ISBN-13 978-0-349-01105-9 / 9780349011059
Zustand Neuware
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