The Fifth Book Of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston

The Fifth Book of Peace begins as the author is driving home from her father's funeral and finds the exit to her neighbourhood blocked; a firestorm is devouring the Berkeley hills, including her house and all her earthly possessions, and most significantly the novel, The Fourth Book of Peace, that she has been working on. In this extraordinary book, The Fifth Book of Peace, Kingston descibes the history of all the lost books of peace - both the three that figure in Chinese mythology, which scholars and laymen have searched for, hoping to find in them the antidote to The Art of War, and her own book, lost in the flames.

Publisher:	Secker & Warburg
Year:	2003
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9780436233937
Condition:	Fair
Description:	Cover creased, soiling to end papers.

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SKU: 1595282
Location: Biography