Awards
Orange Prize for Fiction (nominee)
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Orange Prize for Fiction (nominee)
From the PEN/Malamud Award-winning author of Lucky Girls comes an intricately woven novel about secrets, love, art, identity, and the shining chaos of every day American life.
Yuan Zhao, a celebrated Chinese performance artist and political dissident, has accepted a one-year artist's residency in Los Angeles. He is to be a Visiting Scholar at the St. Anselm's School for Girls, teaching advanced art, and hosted by one of the school's most devoted families: the wealthy if dysfunctional Traverses. The Traverses are too preoccupied with their own problems to pay their foreign guest too much attention, and the dissident is delighted to be left alone—his past links with radical movements give him good reason to avoid careful scrutiny. The trouble starts when he and his American hosts begin to view one another with clearer eyes.
Yuan Zhao, a celebrated Chinese performance artist and political dissident, has accepted a one-year artist's residency in Los Angeles. He is to be a Visiting Scholar at the St. Anselm's School for Girls, teaching advanced art, and hosted by one of the school's most devoted families: the wealthy if dysfunctional Traverses. The Traverses are too preoccupied with their own problems to pay their foreign guest too much attention, and the dissident is delighted to be left alone—his past links with radical movements give him good reason to avoid careful scrutiny. The trouble starts when he and his American hosts begin to view one another with clearer eyes.
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Hardback Editions
March 2007 : Hardback
| Title: The Dissident Author(s):: Nell Freudenberger ISBN: 0330493434 / 9780330493437 (UK edition) Publisher: Picador Availability: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK |
August 2006 : Hardback
| Title: The Dissident Author(s):: Nell Freudenberger ISBN: 0060758716 / 9780060758714 (USA edition) Publisher: Harper Collins Canada Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA |
Paperback Editions
March 2008 : Paperback
| Title: The Dissident Author(s):: Nell Freudenberger ISBN: 0330493442 / 9780330493444 (UK edition) Publisher: Picador Availability: Amazon CA Amazon UK Amazon |
March 2008 : Paperback
| Title: Dissident Author(s):: Nell Freudenberger ISBN: 0330455990 / 9780330455992 (UK edition) Publisher: Pan Macmillan Paperback Omes Availability: Amazon UK |
August 2007 : Paperback
| Title: The Dissident: A Novel Author(s):: Nell Freudenberger ISBN: 0060758724 / 9780060758721 (USA edition) Publisher: Ecco Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA |
Kindle Editions
October 2006 : Kindle edition
| Title: The Dissident (P.S.) Author(s):: Nell Freudenberger ISBN: B000MAH64G Publisher: HarperCollins e-books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK |
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