description: "I was dying to see Mother suffer at the sight of my corpse," announces the young woman at the heart of this powerful and disquieting novel, which has won acclaim in France and in Canada upon original publication in French. In Ingratitude,Ying Chen tells the story of Yan-Zi, who decides to commit suicide in order to escape the yoke of her dominating mother. The narrator's account of her final days recalls the chilling detachment of Camus's The Stranger .
language: English
title: Ingratitude
titlecomplete: Ingratitude
genres: Suspense, Canada, China, Novels, Asian Literature, Asia, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Psychology, France
ratings_count: 317
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle Québec, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Prix des libraires du Québec
category: Lauréats québécois
publisher: University of California Press