Bitter Tea and Braided Hair eBook M Eigh
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This collection packs eight exquisite short fiction from M. Eigh, including Bitter Tea and Braided Hair, My Mother's Shadow, Oscar's Extraordinary Life, Planned, Dear Teresa, The Manchurian Express, A Eulogy for Edwin Bogardus, Not A Bad Day and Double Sauté.
All of the stories have been previously published by very selective professional or semi-professional literary magazines and some of them have been re-printed since their first publication.
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Bitter Tea and Braided Hair eBook M Eigh
As writer I have always admired those that can contain their creativity within the limited confines of short fiction and still create vivid and poignant stories. Here is one example of a master of the short form. Each story creates in such brief time an amazing window into a foreign land, particularly Asian locales.For someone from the United States it is a refreshing perspective on life, prejudice, injustice and the universality of good and bad in humanity. The vivid imagery, the sorry, grief, longing, loneliness, disgust and determination embodied by the characters is what is most telling in these snippets of life. It is the strong evocation of these emotions in the reader as well that truly shows the M. Eigh's mastery of the short story. From longing for the touch of the opposite sex, to prejudice, avarice and violence these tales exhibit emotions that are challenging to the reader but because of the storytelling they become accessible.
There are points when you feel compelled to look away and other times when you are drawn in like a moth to a flame. There are also moments when great compassion for other less fortunate is shown. If one wanted to see the range of human emotional, social and civil capacities these stories show us at our best and our worst. An eye opening read for any thoughtful human being.
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Bitter Tea and Braided Hair eBook M Eigh Reviews
BITTER TEAR AND BRAIDED HAIR is a collection of short stories that serves to introduce many of us to a writer a=of significant gifts. He is able in a very brief time to gain our empathy for his characters, such as the half Chinese half Tibetan young man of the title story who falls in love with a Tibetan girl and just as quickly loses everything. In MY MOTHER'S SHADOW our main character is a first grade child who notices he has no shadow, discovers that this is a curse from God, and walks with his mother who has a shadow to the prison where his also shadowless father is held his mother and the boy bear the spite of the town when it seems to everyone that each time they visit the prison and bring home an `uncle' (a doomed shadowless man) causing the rumor that his mother is a prostitute.
Or take the case of OSCAR'S EXTRAORDINARY LIFE, PLANNED we meet an in utero fetus that can hear and think about everything that is happening outside his mother womb - even the sexual liaisons she has which put a question as to the fetus' origin! In DEAR TERESA a young lad in the year 1979 attends school but also listens to his shortwave radio for English 900 and learns of a radio personality Sister Teresa, becomes a fan, communicates with her Letter to Teresa project, and makes portraits of her - only to find that his gift for pictures creates dissension among his friends. THE MANCHURIAN EXPRESS is a comical story that has at its core the dissolution of the Mao-style communism of China, but the style of A EULOGY FOR EDWIN BOGARDUS tops even that as we learn about the life of a man who died from an overdoes effect of Viagra!
In all, this is a fine group of imaginative fiction that spreads across the world from China to the US. The only thing we discover about the author M. Eigh who attended China's prestigious Tsinghua University, is a highly published Chinese poet, and is a man with considerable talent. His next move should be a novella and then a novel to see if his imagination can sustain through a book long story. It would also be interesting to read translations of his poetry. But a helpful hint to this writer secure the guidance of a good editor to extract the spelling and grammar errors next time round, because you are just too fine to let skips get into your work! Grady Harp, June 13
if you want a quick read and a good story then this is worth giving a read charectors are good
As writer I have always admired those that can contain their creativity within the limited confines of short fiction and still create vivid and poignant stories. Here is one example of a master of the short form. Each story creates in such brief time an amazing window into a foreign land, particularly Asian locales.
For someone from the United States it is a refreshing perspective on life, prejudice, injustice and the universality of good and bad in humanity. The vivid imagery, the sorry, grief, longing, loneliness, disgust and determination embodied by the characters is what is most telling in these snippets of life. It is the strong evocation of these emotions in the reader as well that truly shows the M. Eigh's mastery of the short story. From longing for the touch of the opposite sex, to prejudice, avarice and violence these tales exhibit emotions that are challenging to the reader but because of the storytelling they become accessible.
There are points when you feel compelled to look away and other times when you are drawn in like a moth to a flame. There are also moments when great compassion for other less fortunate is shown. If one wanted to see the range of human emotional, social and civil capacities these stories show us at our best and our worst. An eye opening read for any thoughtful human being.
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