LISA LEE

For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green tea, and jasmine, a small theatrical troupe is performing scenes from this epic opera, a live spectacle few females have ever seen. Like the heroine in the drama, Peony is the cloistered daughter of a wealthy family, trapped like a good-luck cricket in a bamboo-and-lacquer cage. Though raised to be obedient, Peony has dreams of her own.Peonys mother is against her daughters attending the production: Unmarried girls should not be seen in public. But Peonys father assures his wife that proprieties will be maintained, and that the women will watch the opera from behind a screen. Yet through its cracks, Peony catches sight of an elegant, handsome man with hair as black as a caveand is immediately overcome with emotion.So begins Peonys unforgettable journey of love and destiny, desire and sorrowas Lisa Sees haunting new novel, based on actual historical events, takes readers back to seventeenth-century China, after the Manchus seize power and the Ming dynasty is crushed.

Una historia épica brillantemente documentada sobre la China de la época revolucionaria. Una gran historia sobre la resistencia humana, los espíritus independientes y el poder del amor entre madres e hijas. Una novela sobre los indestructibles lazos familiares y las mujeres obstinadas. Desde su debut, todas las novelas de Lisa See han permanecido durante semanas en las listas de mas vendidos del New York Times. Sueños de felicidad constituye la continuacion de su aclamada novela Las chicas de Shanghai. Los seguidores de Lisa See estaran encantados de leer mas acerca de Pearl, May y Joy.

Though both sisters wave off authority and tradition, they couldn't be more different: Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree . . . until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from California to find Chinese brides. As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, Pearl and May set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the Chinese countryside, in and out of the clutch of brutal soldiers, and across the Pacific to the shores of America. In Los Angeles they begin a fresh chapter, trying to find love with the strangers they have married, brushing against the seduction of Hollywood, and striving to embrace American life even as they fight against discrimination, brave Communist witch hunts, and find themselves hemmed in by Chinatown's old ways and rules. At its heart, Shanghai Girls is a story of sisters: Pearl and May are inseparable best friends who share hopes, dreams, and a deep connection, but like sisters everywhere they also harbor petty jealousies and rivalries. They love each other, but each knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt the other the most. Along the way they face terrible sacrifices, make impossible choices, and confront a devastating, life-changing secret, but through it all the two heroines of this astounding new novel hold fast to who they are-Shanghai girls.

The first monograph of Chicago-based Theaster Gates, one of the most exciting and highly regarded contemporary artists at work today. Theaster Gates has developed an expanded artistic practice that includes space development, object making, performance and critical engagement with many publics. Gates transforms spaces, institutions, traditions, and perceptions. Gates's training as an urban planner and sculptor, and subsequent time spent studying clay, has given him keen awareness of the poetics of production and systems of organizing. Playing with these poetic and systematic interests, Gates has assembled gospel choirs, formed temporary unions, and used systems of mass production as a way of underscoring the need that industry has for the body. Gates refers to his working method as 'critique through collaboration' and his projects often stretch the form of what we usually understand visual art to be. His focus is also on the availability of information and the cross-fertilization of ideas. His multi-faceted exhibitions investigate themes of race and history through sculpture, installation, performance and two-dimensional works, furthering the artist's interest in a critique of social practice, shared economies and the question of objects in relation to political and cultural thought. Gates' recent exhibition and performance venues include the Seattle Art Museum, Art Basel Miami Beach, Milwaukee Art Museum, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and the Whitney Biennial in New York. Gates was a participating artist in Documenta 13 in Kassel (2012) with his total-living installation 12 Ballads for Huguenot House. Other notable solo exhibitions include An Epitaph for Civil Rights at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (2011) and My Labor Is My Protest, at White Cube Bermondsey, London (2012). Parallel to his artist career, Gates is also Director of Arts and Public Life Initiative at the University of Chicago and a board member of the city's South Side Community Center. Recently commissioned as the 2012 Armory Show Artist and a Loeb Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2011, Gates has received awards and grants from Creative Capital, the Joyce Foundation, Graham Foundation, and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.

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Una historia reconfortante de amor heroico entre una madre y una hija... Ningún escritor ha evocado mejor la voz y el corazón de la cultura china.La novela más impactante de Lisa See hasta la fecha.La aclamada escritora Lisa See retoma en Sueños de felicidadla historia de las hermanas Pearl y May, de Dos chicas de Shanghai, y Joy, la tenaz hija de diecinueve años de la primera.Joy, todavia abrumada por los secretos familiares que acaba de descubrir, huye a Shanghai a comienzos de 1957 para buscar a su padre biologico, el artista Z. G. Li, de quien May y Pearl estuvieron enamoradas antaño. Deslumbrada por el, y cegada por el idealismo y los desafios que plantea la realidad, Joy se sumerge en la Nueva Sociedad de la China roja, ajena a los peligros del regimen comunista.Pearl, desolada por la huida de Joy y aterrada por su seguridad, esta decidida a salvar a su hija cueste lo que cueste. Desde la atestada ciudad hasta aldeas remotas, Pearl se enfrenta a viejos demonios y a retos casi insuperables mientras sigue a Joy, abrigando la esperanza de la reconciliacion.Sin embargo, cuando los periplos de Joy y Pearl por fin convergen, uno de los episodios mas tragicos de la historia de China pone en peligro sus vidas.Una vez mas, la investigacion de See resulta impecable, y ha creado un mundo autentico y visualmente fascinante. Una historia epica asombrosamente documentada sobre la China de la epoca revolucionaria.Reseña: Un relato con personajes que irrumpen en la vida del lector, se instalan en ella e iluminan la miriada de decisiones y vicisitudes que conforman la historia humana, Lisa See se supera con cada nueva novela.Los Angeles Times