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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This is the true story of a courageous family who put family and love first. In some ways it is the continuing story of the author, Kao Kalia Yang’s family told in her first book, “The Late Homecomer”, only the focus of this book is her father, Bee Yang, who was orphaned as a young child, something that affected him his whole life. Bee Yang is a Song Poet, recognized as a teller of stories of the Hmong people including folktales and personal histories. Author Kao Kalia Yang tells her family’s story in familiar lyrical style with unflinching honesty. In some ways it is a complex book about a loving, caring family, who like so many other Hmong people faced enormous obstacles, including enormous prejudice and discrimination, and great personal sacrifice in the hope of making a better life for their families in America after the Vietnam War. I believe It is a testament, not only to her family, but also to the many Hmong families and veterans who emigrated to the United States after the War. This well-written, powerful book is a must-read for everyone, but especially for those who have an interest in Hmong American history.
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"From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in America. In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses; extemporizing or drawing on folk tales, he keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award-winning book The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang now retells the life of her father Bee Yang, the song poet, a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains of Laos by American's Secret War. Bee lost his father as a young boy and keenly felt his orphanhood. He would wander from one neighbor to the next, collecting the things they said to each other, whispering the words to himself at night until, one day, a song was born. Bee sings the life of his people through the war-torn jungle and a Thai refugee camp. But the songs fall away in the cold, bitter world of a Minneapolis housing project and on the factory floor until, with the death of Bee's mother, the songs leave him for good. But before they do, Bee, with his poetry, has polished a life of poverty for his children, burnished their grim reality so that they might shine. Written with the exquisite beauty for which Kao Kalia Yang is renowned, The Song Poet is a love story--of a daughter for her father, a father for his children, a people for their land, their traditions, and all that they have lost"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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While there was a sense of repetition in this story when compared with The Latehomecomer, Yang's prose and writing style are gorgeous and a delight to read, and she handles the frequently heavy content with honesty and grace. While reading I felt as though I've been warmly welcomed into the Yang home, and now that it has been seven years since this book was written I can't help but wonder how everyone is doing, especially Xue. ( )