Going nowhere in her PhD, Ingrid Yang has hit a wall: she can't find anything original to write about the late canonical poet, Xiao-Wen Chou. As the deadline for her dissertation nears, insomnia and stomach pain plague her, she becomes...

"hilarious and harrowing" -The New York Review of Books * "a rollicking, whip-smart ride" -Harper's Bazaar * "captivating, irresistible" -Chicago Review of Books * "a master class in satire" -Foreign Policy * "page-turning, thrilling"...

Disorientation is at once a blistering send-up of privilege and power, and a profound reckoning of individual complicity and unspoken rage ¿ an electrifying debut novel from a provocative new voice. von Hsieh Chou, Elaine

A Taiwanese American woman's coming-of-consciousness ignites eye-opening revelations and chaos on a college campus in this outrageously hilarious yet startlingly tender debut novelTwenty-nine-year-old PhD student Ingrid Yang is desperate...

"Disorientation: A Novel" von Elaine Hsieh Chou ist eine satirische und zugleich tiefgründige Erzählung, die sich um Ingrid Yang dreht, eine taiwanesisch-amerikanische Doktorandin. Ingrid steckt in einer akademischen Sackgasse fest und...