num_pages: 403
description: A long time ago in China, there existed three Books of Peace that proved so threatening to the reigning powers that they had them burned. Many years later Maxine Hong Kingston wrote a fourth Book of Peace, but it too was burned—in the catastrophic Oakland-Berkeley Hills fire of 1991, a fire that coincided with the death of her father. Now in this visionary and redemptive work, Kingston completes her interrupted labor, weaving fiction and memoir into a luminous meditation on war and peace, devastation and renewal.
language: English
title: The Fifth Book of Peace
titlecomplete: The Fifth Book of Peace
genres: Fiction, China, Contemporary, Writing, American, Literary Fiction, Literature
ratings_count: 361
publisher: Vintage