THE LANGUAGE OF THREADS; Gail Tsukiyama
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. INSCRIBED by the Author on the half title, tall 8vo, blue vertically-ribbed cloth, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with silk floral motif, 276 pages. Fine / Fine. Item #5619
ISBN: 9780312203764
Gail Tsukiyama is the author of several bestselling books. She has won the Academy of American Poets Award and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award.
THE LANGUAGE OF THREADS continues the life of Pei, who worked in the silk industry "sweatshops" as a girl, and who was introduced In Tsukiyama's debut novel, Women of the Silk. Now in ...THREADS--a study of hardship and survival--Pei moves on to Hong Kong during the 30's, where she soon faces the horrible effects of the Japanese conquest, prison life, and black market gangs.
INSCRIBED & in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION: Tight, bright, clean copy in immaculate dust jacket (unclipped).
Price: $35.00