{"product_id":"9781681378220","title":"Mourning a Breast","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBy Xi Xi, part of the first generation of writers raised in Hong Kong, a wise and amiably written book of autobiographical fiction on the author’s experience with breast cancer—from diagnosis to treatment to recovery—and her passage from a life lived through the mind into a life lived through the body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1989, the acclaimed Hong Kong writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her semi-autobiographical novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMourning a Breast\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a disarmingly honest and inventive account of the author’s experience of a mastectomy and of her subsequent recovery. The book opens with her putting away a bathing suit. As the routine pleasure of swimming is revoked, the small loss stands in for the greater one. But Xi Xi’s mourning begins to take shape as a form of activism. Addressing her reader as frankly and unashamedly as an old friend, she describes what she is going through; finds consolation in art, literature, and cinema; and advocates for a universal literacy of the body. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMourning a Breast\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was heralded as one of the first Chinese-language books to cast off the stigma of writing about illness and to expose the myths associated with breast cancer. It is a radical novel about creating in the midst of mourning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTranslated by Jennifer Feeley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Times","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51499510694134,"sku":"9781681378220","price":104.5,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/8050\/3286\/files\/71PfJFf_HtL._SL1500.jpg?v=1787370319","url":"https:\/\/shop.litbooks.com.my\/products\/9781681378220","provider":"Lit Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}