Repeat After Me: A Novel - Hardcover

Dewoskin, Rachel

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ISBN 10: 1590202228 ISBN 13: 9781590202227

Publisher: The Overlook Press, 2009

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Rachel DeWoskin is a writer who has been lauded for her "razor-sharp descriptions" (The Wall Street Journal), her "considerable cultural and linguistic resources" (The New Yorker), and her rare ability to offer a "real insider's look at life in modern China" (The Economist). Now DeWoskin, author of the laughout-loud funny and poignant Foreign Babes in Beijing, returns with a new novel about modern China and one American girl's struggle to find herself there. Aysha is a twenty-two-year-old New Yorker putting the pieces of her life back in place after her parents' divorce and her own nervous breakdown when a young Chinese student named Da Ge flips her world upside-down. In a love story that spans decades and continents, from the Tiananmen Square incident to 9/11, New York City's Upper West Side to the terraced mountains of South China, Repeat After Me gives readers an alternately funny and painful glimpse of life and loss in between languages.

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The original Foreign Babe in Beijing returns with her "heartbreaking and

uplifting" (Publishers Weekly) debut novel, Repeat After Me. Aysha is a twenty two-year-old New Yorker recovering from her parents' divorce and a nervous breakdown. Everything changes when the young Chinese dissident, Da Ge, enrolls in her English class hot on the heels of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Improbably and inescapably in love with Da Ge, Aysha ends up pulled in

directions she never expected. Richly textured and full of sharp cross-cultural observations, Repeat After Me plunges the reader into a persuasive tale about love, loss, and language.

About the Author:

Rachel DeWoskin was educated at Columbia and Boston University. Her acclaimed first book, Foreign Babes in Beijing, has been published in five languages and was developed as a feature film by Paramount. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children.

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