Set against the background of the Japanese occupations of China, the Communist-Nationalist struggle, the White Terror of Taiwan, and American engagement in the Vietnam War, this extraordinary novel recounts the story of two women — Mulberry and Peach — who are really one. Mulberry is a young woman who has fled the turmoil of postwar China to settle in the United States. Unable to forget the terrors she has witnessed or resolve the conflicts between her new life and her old, she develops a second personality: the fearless, tough-talking, sexually uninhibited Peach. While Mulberry clings to her cultural and ethical roots, Peach renounces her past to embrace the American way of life , with a vengeance. . These two women — both in flight — speak to their readers through an innovative narrative structure, combining journal entries, interior dialogue, letters, poetry, and myth.
Told through the eyes of a young refugee woman, Mulberry and Peach offers a rare perspective on the difficulties of immigrant experience and on the upheavals of contemporary China, where the book was banned upon its first publication in 1976. In a unique narrative that is at once humorous and fierce, highly original and deeply affecting, , Hualing Nieh presents an unforgettable portrait of the pain of cultural dislocation and the anguish of psychological disintegration
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