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Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston (2003, Hardcover)
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Item specifics
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- ISBN
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679440755
ISBN-13
9780679440758
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2389707
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fifth Book of Peace
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Topic
War & Military, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Fiction, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
25.6 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-034103
Reviews
"A trenchant opus about surviving the fires of life. . .a wonderful, mulitlayered work. Marvelous." --San Francisco Chronicle "Her prose . . . is masterly, at times nearly overwhelming in its descriptive power. . . . The world--and not just the world of literature--owes Maxine Hong Kingston a huge debt of gratitude." - The Washington Post Book World "Gorgeous. . . . [A] work of love and powerstraight from Kingston's brilliant and passionate heartand her vision of peace is undeniable. You have to see it, too."Minneapolis Star-Tribune "A moving testament to Kingston's determination and compassion, and a document of how one can survive pain, loss and the burden of history." - San Jose Mercury News "A strange, scarred thing, pieced together from fragments, smelling of smoke and anguish. Its power lies in its pain." --The New York Times Book Review "Rich in empathy and moral conviction. . . . Kingston is . . . an exuberant storyteller." --The New Yorker "Astonishing. . . . Part fiction and part autobiography, revery, prophecy, and how to manual. . . . Wherever we are in this fifth book . . . Kingston is a lotus, a flowering of divine intellect, and a bodhisattva, sticking around, one birth short of nirvana, to ease our suffering." -Harper's Magazine "A sharp, aching account. . . . [It] captivates . . . because of the splashy urgency of its writing."Los Angeles Times Book Review "Kaleidoscopic . . . Mesmerizing. . . . Employing language that is a lush and vibrant lure skimming the still lake of our collective experience as Americans who have attended far too many wars in far too few years, Kingston reels in the big questions . . . and displays them with both authority and care. The Fifth Book of Peace is a big book, chock full of real, not self, importance." --The Baltimore Sun "Powerful. . . . Kingston's elegant arc from the person to the global constitutes a profound act of humility and compassion." -Pittsburg Post-Gazette "I loved itI couldn't stop reading it. Maxine Hong Kingston is one of our best writers. The Fifth Book of Peace has the generosity of spirit and the luminous prose we so urgently need in this time of war after war." -Leslie Marmon Silko "A passionate plea that draws on U.S. history and Buddhist wisdom to argue for an all-inclusive and peaceful world."People Magazine "Moving. . . . A richly various extended meditation on peace. . . . The lesson embodied in The Fifth Book of Peace could not be more timely." -Boston Globe "An amazing testament to the existence of peace, even in the midst of war. The book is a communal effort, beautifully orchestrated by Hong Kingston and pieced together with open eyes. She doesn't romanticize, doesn't ignore the failures of past peace movements, but bravely searches for new possibilities." --Rocky Mountain News "Beautifully rendered. . . . Intelligent and poetic. . . . Kingston gives readers entr'e into something powerful." --Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel "Dense, complex, urgent. . . . Kingston is interested here in the process of telling stories to come to a happy ending." --Newsday "Immediately striking about The Fifth Book of Peace is the uncanniness with which it nails the anxiety of this nation. . . . King, "A trenchant opus about surviving the fires of life. . .a wonderful, mulitlayered work. Marvelous."--San Francisco Chronicle "Her prose . . . is masterly, at times nearly overwhelming in its descriptive power. . . . The world--and not just the world of literature--owes Maxine Hong Kingston a huge debt of gratitude."- The Washington Post Book World "Gorgeous. . . . [A] work of love and powerstraight from Kingston's brilliant and passionate heartand her vision of peace is undeniable. You have to see it, too."Minneapolis Star-Tribune "A moving testament to Kingston's determination and compassion, and a document of how one can survive pain, loss and the burden of history."- San Jose Mercury News "A strange, scarred thing, pieced together from fragments, smelling of smoke and anguish. Its power lies in its pain." --The New York Times Book Review "Rich in empathy and moral conviction. . . . Kingston is . . . an exuberant storyteller." --The New Yorker "Astonishing. . . . Part fiction and part autobiography, revery, prophecy, and how to manual. . . . Wherever we are in this fifth book . . . Kingston is a lotus, a flowering of divine intellect, and a bodhisattva, sticking around, one birth short of nirvana, to ease our suffering." -Harper's Magazine "A sharp, aching account. . . . [It] captivates . . . because of the splashy urgency of its writing."Los Angeles Times Book Review "Kaleidoscopic . . . Mesmerizing. . . . Employing language that is a lush and vibrant lure skimming the still lake of our collective experience as Americans who have attended far too many wars in far too few years, Kingston reels in the big questions . . . and displays them with both authority and care.The Fifth Book of Peaceis a big book, chock full of real, not self, importance." --The Baltimore Sun "Powerful. . . . Kingston's elegant arc from the person to the global constitutes a profound act of humility and compassion." -Pittsburg Post-Gazette "I loved itI couldn't stop reading it. Maxine Hong Kingston is one of our best writers.The Fifth Book of Peacehas the generosity of spirit and the luminous prose we so urgently need in this time of war after war." -Leslie Marmon Silko "A passionate plea that draws on U.S. history and Buddhist wisdom to argue for an all-inclusive and peaceful world."People Magazine "Moving. . . . A richly various extended meditation on peace. . . . The lesson embodied inThe Fifth Book of Peacecould not be more timely." -Boston Globe "An amazing testament to the existence of peace, even in the midst of war. The book is a communal effort, beautifully orchestrated by Hong Kingston and pieced together with open eyes. She doesn't romanticize, doesn't ignore the failures of past peace movements, but bravely searches for new possibilities."--Rocky Mountain News "Beautifully rendered. . . . Intelligent and poetic. . . . Kingston gives readers entr'e into something powerful."--Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel "Dense, complex, urgent. . . . Kingston is interested here in the process of telling stories to come to a happy ending." --Newsday "Immediately striking aboutThe Fifth Book of Peaceis the uncanniness with which it nails the anxiety of this nation. . . . Kingston's stories and p
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Synopsis
The Fifth Book of Peaceopens as Maxine Hong Kingston, driving home from her father's funeral in the early 1990s, discovers that her neighborhood in the Oakland-Berkeley hills is engulfed in flames. Her home burns to the ground, and with it, all her earthly possessions, including her novel-in-progress. Kingston, who at the time was deeply disturbed by the Persian Gulf War, decides that she must understand her own loss of all she possessed as a kind of shadow-experience of war: a lesson about what it would be like to experience up close its utter devastation. Thus she embarks on a mission to re-create her novel from scratch, to rebuild her life, and to reach out to veterans of war and share with them her views as a lover of peace. In the middle section of this remarkable book, Kingston reconstructs for us her lost novel, the lush and compelling story of the Chinese-American Wittman Ah Sing and his wife, TañaCalifornia artists who flee to Hawaii to evade the draft during the Vietnam War. Wittman and Taña help to create an official Sanctuary for deserters and GIs who've returned devastated by their experiences in Vietnamnot unlike, as it turns out, the metaphorical sanctuary Maxine creates, back in her real world, by inviting war veterans to participate in writing workshops. As the vets share their stories, she teaches them both the value of writingthe accurate transcription of what is in the heartand the value of community. Paradoxically, the stories of war and its terrors become for her and the vets a literature of peacewords that enable them to achieve peace, at least within themselves. Moving among the vets with her Buddhist-inflected wisdom and at times humorous self-doubts, weaving their stories together with her own struggle to reorient herself after the fire, Maxine Hong Kingston is at times a kind of sprite, an almost weightless spirit, who guides others toward a better place, and at times a challenging teacher, who will not let us turn from the spectacle of a world so often at war., The Fifth Book of Peace opens as Maxine Hong Kingston, driving home from her father's funeral in the early 1990s, discovers that her neighborhood in the Oakland-Berkeley hills is engulfed in flames. Her home burns to the ground, and with it, all her earthly possessions, including her novel-in-progress. Kingston, who at the time was deeply disturbed by the Persian Gulf War, decides that she must understand her own loss of all she possessed as a kind of shadow-experience of war: a lesson about what it would be like to experience up close its utter devastation. Thus she embarks on a mission to re-create her novel from scratch, to rebuild her life, and to reach out to veterans of war and share with them her views as a lover of peace. In the middle section of this remarkable book, Kingston reconstructs for us her lost novel, the lush and compelling story of the Chinese-American Wittman Ah Sing and his wife, Taña-California artists who flee to Hawaii to evade the draft during the Vietnam War. Wittman and Taña help to create an official Sanctuary for deserters and GIs who've returned devastated by their experiences in Vietnam-not unlike, as it turns out, the metaphorical sanctuary Maxine creates, back in her real world, by inviting war veterans to participate in writing workshops. As the vets share their stories, she teaches them both the value of writing-the accurate transcription of what is in the heart-and the value of community. Paradoxically, the stories of war and its terrors become for her and the vets a literature of peace-words that enable them to achieve peace, at least within themselves. Moving among the vets with her Buddhist-inflected wisdom and at times humorous self-doubts, weaving their stories together with her own struggle to reorient herself after the fire, Maxine Hong Kingston is at times a kind of sprite, an almost weightless spirit, who guides others toward a better place, and at times a challenging teacher, who will not let us turn from the spectacle of a world so often at war.
LC Classification Number
PS3561.I52F44 2003
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