The Woman Warrior

This is a delightful book . . . tells more than I ever imagined about the strangeness of being Chinese and a woman; it also gives a superb account of what it’s like simply to be aliveVictoria Radin, New Society

A strange, enchanting book . . . As a manual of self-discovery through the channels and terrors of one’s own rejected communal memory, it is unbeatableThe Guardian

As a dream - of the ”female avenger” - it is dizzying, elemental, a poem turned into a sword . . . reimagining the past with such dark beauty, such precision and anger that you feel you have saddled the Tao dragon and see all through the fiery eye of GodJohn Leonard, The New York Times

A book of fierce clarity and originalityNewsweek