A candid and intimate story of a courageous woman, where Mei talks directly to you. It is often harsh, but with gentle prose; The boat of my life seemed to navigate directly towards the Island of Death; dark clouds rolled in, black waves flooded….
The backdrop; in China and Germany; her partner (the father of her son) having an affair with her sister; and of course, stage four cancer.
- Sales points:
- Shows the capacity for humans to prevail against cancer and emotional trauma
- Interesting times; China’s massive development and the SARS virus ; The wall coming down in Germany
- Dotted with beautiful prose
- Contains wonderful paintings
- Philosophical
Tabella dei contenuti
Cancer 1
I Thought You Would Die 5
Create Life 13
You are Crazy 23
Doctor Tony 33
Irrevocable Break-up 45
I Hate My Body 53
Return to Work With Pain of Body 57
Social Dancing in Berlin 65
Hendrik 67
Movement under the waist 81
I keep away from Hendrik 87
World Culture Palace of Berlin, 20th July 2003 Night 95
I Want Go Back To China 97
Piano And Love 101
Stephan 107
JIM 113
Green Wedding 127
Frustration, Cultural Clash 137
Jim’s precarious job position 145
The night that changed my life 155
Divorced 159
Jim 169
What Is Living? How To Be Alive? 177
Jim and Tantan 183
Bogelt 185
Lake Constance 191
A Year End Phone Call 197
The Diary 203
A Little Rabbit Looks for Mum 207
Light Festival In Kindergarten 209
Is Life Heavy? 213
I carry on 215
Postscript: 217
Look for Hope in Despair 217
Circa l’autore
Dr (Ph D) Mei Huang is a freelance curator of major international art exhibitions and large-scale cultural events, a collector of well-known works of art, a scholar, translator.