{"product_id":"mourning-a-breast","title":"Mourning a Breast","description":"\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1989, the acclaimed Hong Kong writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her semi-autobiographical novel Mourning a Breast 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. Mourning a Breast 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\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: UK, 2024\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: New York Review Books\u003cbr\u003ePages: 400\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 1681378221\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN 13: 9781681378220\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Xi Xi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51232428458250,"sku":"","price":23.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781681378220.jpg?v=1747827829","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/mourning-a-breast","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}