Pagina principaleGruppiConversazioniAltroStatistiche
Cerca nel Sito
Questo sito utilizza i cookies per fornire i nostri servizi, per migliorare le prestazioni, per analisi, e (per gli utenti che accedono senza fare login) per la pubblicità. Usando LibraryThing confermi di aver letto e capito le nostre condizioni di servizio e la politica sulla privacy. Il tuo uso del sito e dei servizi è soggetto a tali politiche e condizioni.

Risultati da Google Ricerca Libri

Fai clic su di un'immagine per andare a Google Ricerca Libri.

Sto caricando le informazioni...

Eating Chinese Food Naked (1998)

di Mei Ng

UtentiRecensioniPopolaritàMedia votiCitazioni
2378112,544 (3.06)10
This is a smart literary debut evocatively recounting Chinese-American life in a New York borough from a daughter's perspective.
Nessuno
Sto caricando le informazioni...

Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro.

Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.

» Vedi le 10 citazioni

Interesting story. Asian-American experience without being an "Asian-American experience", if that makes any sense. Basically a story about a woman trying to survive that phase in one's life, between college-years and the-rest-of-your-life. Particularly as an Asian-American, the process is loaded with family issues, and in Ruby's case, love.

Pace of the novel was slow -- slow like molasses, slow. I'm still deciding whether this added to or detracted from the story. ( )
  mimo | Dec 18, 2023 |
A character study.

This is very much a character driven book, very little actually happens, but we do get a feeling for life as a second generation Chinese girl in New York.

Ruby is 21 when she graduates from university and goes home to live with her parents. Although she didn't have much money in her bank account, I didn't get the feeling that her return was entirely a financial decision. She cared a great deal for her mother, Bell, whose uncaring husband treated her poorly. Although Ruby loved her father, I don't think she liked him very much and she was certainly aware of how mean he was to Bell.

Ruby wanted to take Bell away for a holiday in Florida, where her friends lived, and she worked as a temp to raise the funds, but the trip was continually postponed. Why? Bell just couldn't make the break from her husband, her life, even for a couple of weeks.

There was also a white boyfriend from Ruby's time at Columbia. While he loved Ruby, she wasn't sure how she felt about him and didn't see any problem with going off for other sexual encounters at the same time. There was quite a bit of sex in the book, thrown in in a very casual manner; nothing overtly blatant, but certainly not disguised.

I think what has stayed with me most from this book were the courtesies extended while eating - one would always choose the best bits and slip them into the other person's bowl and they would do the same for you. It was a way of showing you cared. That really appealed to me.

Published in 1998, this is the author's only book. I notice from her biography that Mei Ng was also a graduate of Columbia University and was raised in Queens, of Chinese parents; I wonder to what extent this book is autobiographical.

Not a riveting read but interesting and thought provoking. ( )
  DubaiReader | Jul 15, 2015 |
Eating Chinese Food Naked
Was hoping this audio book will include some Chinese recipes.
Ruby is back from college, to her mothers house and is not ready to move into her boyfriends apartment.
She gets a job because she's not sure what she wants to do after graduating from college.
Longer she stays
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device). ( )
  jbarr5 | Apr 30, 2015 |
This book provides an intimate look at a family, at how our childhood affects our ability to develop and sustain relationships as adults. Returning home after college, Ruby is troubled by her parents' relationship: her father is always criticizing her passive mother. Her brother is estranged from the family; her sister lives right upstairs but isn't emotionally close to the rest of the family. Ruby's own life contains similar emotional distances: her lack of close friends and her inability to commit to a romantic relationship. There are deep themes here and very complex characters; it is the kind of book I want to think about for quite a while. ( )
  LynnB | Dec 19, 2014 |
nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Devi effettuare l'accesso per contribuire alle Informazioni generali.
Per maggiori spiegazioni, vedi la pagina di aiuto delle informazioni generali.
Titolo canonico
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.
Titolo originale
Titoli alternativi
Data della prima edizione
Personaggi
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.
Luoghi significativi
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.
Eventi significativi
Film correlati
Epigrafe
Dedica
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.
For my mom and my dad
Incipit
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.
Franklin was telling his wife, Bell, about the little boy who got his head caught in the power window of the family car, about the Chinese woman (a doctor) who was kidnapped from a Citibank, about the four people who were shot down outside a bowling alley, about all the people who got dead that day.
Citazioni
Ultime parole
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.
Nota di disambiguazione
Redattore editoriale
Elogi
Lingua originale
DDC/MDS Canonico
LCC canonico

Risorse esterne che parlano di questo libro

Wikipedia in inglese

Nessuno

This is a smart literary debut evocatively recounting Chinese-American life in a New York borough from a daughter's perspective.

Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche

Descrizione del libro
Riassunto haiku

Discussioni correnti

Nessuno

Copertine popolari

Link rapidi

Voto

Media: (3.06)
0.5
1
1.5
2 11
2.5 1
3 12
3.5 3
4 6
4.5
5 3

Sei tu?

Diventa un autore di LibraryThing.

 

A proposito di | Contatto | LibraryThing.com | Privacy/Condizioni d'uso | Guida/FAQ | Blog | Negozio | APIs | TinyCat | Biblioteche di personaggi celebri | Recensori in anteprima | Informazioni generali | 203,230,558 libri! | Barra superiore: Sempre visibile