Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior

The autobiographical novel by Maxine Hong Kingston tells the story of a young woman growing up in a Chinese-American household in California. Blending Chinese folktales and contemporary life, the book sheds light on the author’s position as a female cultural minority in the late 1900s. ‘The Woman Warrior’ won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named as one of TIME magazine’s top non-fiction books of the 1970s.

This is a first edition from the private collection of Robert Yeo. The publication bears Maxine Hong Kingston’s signature on the title page.