Mourning a Breast

by Xi Xi

Book Overview

By Xi Xi, part of the first generation of writers raised in Hong Kong, a wise and amiably written book of autobiographical fiction on the author's experience with breast cancer--from diagnosis to treatment to recovery--and her passage from a life lived through the mind into a life lived through the body.

In 1989, the acclaimed Hong Kong writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her semi-autobiographical novel Mourning a Breast...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681378221
• ISBN13: 9781681378220
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 8.0"