Dear Chrysanthemums A Novel In Stories Fiona Szelorrain by Fiona Sze-lorrain 9781668012987, 1668012987 instant download after payment.

Cooking for Madame Chiang, 1946: Two cooks work for Madame Chiang Kai-shek & prepare a foreign dish craved by their mistress, which becomes a political weapon & leads to their tragic end. 

Death at the Wukang Mansion, 1966: Punished for her extramarital affair, a dancer is transferred to Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution & assigned to an ominous apartment in a building whose other residents often depart in coffins.

The White Piano, 1996: A budding pianist from New York City settles down in Paris & is assaulted when a mysterious piano arrives from Singapore.

The Invisible Window, 2016: After their exile following the Tiananmen Square massacre, three women gather in a French cathedral to renew their friendship & reunite in their grief & faith. 

Evocative, vivid, disturbing, & written with a masterly ear for language, Dear Chrysanthemums renders a devastating portrait of diasporic life & inhumanity, as well as a tender web of shared memory, artistic expression, & love.

Fiona Sze-Lorrain is a fiction writer, poet, musician, translator, & editor. She writes & translates in English, French, & Chinese. She is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Rain in Plural (Princeton, 2020) & The Ruined Elegance (Princeton, 2016), & fifteen books of translation. A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize & the Best Translated Book Award among other honors, she was a 2019–20 Abigail R. Cohen Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas & Imagination & the inaugural write