Tác Giả michelle zauner

Một cuốn sách vừa khơi gợi tâm trí tận hưởnghương vị ẩm thực Hàn Quốc đa sắc vừa khiến trái tim đau đáu về một câu chuyện gia đình cảm động.

“Từ khi mẹ qua đời, tôi thường bật khóc ở H Mart.” Michelle Zauner mở đầu cuốn hồi ký đầu tay của cô, cũng là bài viết nổi tiếng trên tờ The New Yorker, “Bật khóc ở H Mart”,bằng một lời tự sự chân thành buồn bã.Sau sự ra đi đầy đau đớn của người mẹ, Michelle thường đến H Mart – chuỗi siêu thị Hàn Quốc(và châu Á) lớn ở Mỹ – để giải tỏa và tìm lại bản thân, tìm lại bằng chứng về một nửa dòng máu Hàn Quốc trong mình. Cô giận dữ khi nhìn thấy một người phụ nữ Hàn có thể sống lâu hơn mẹ, chạnh lòng khi nhìn thấy hình ảnh những người thân trong cùng một gia đình chia sẻ những món ăn… Michelle cảm thấy hoảng sợ khi nhìn sự ra đi của mẹ đồng nghĩa với sự mất mát vĩnh viễn một nửa gốc gác Hàn của cô, nên xuyên suốt cuốn truyện là hành trình cô cố gắng từng chút, từng chút một đi tìm lại nguồn cội của bản thân.

Tác giả

Michelle Zauner sinh năm 1989, là nhạc sĩ, ca sĩ, nghệ sĩ guitar và nhà văn có cha là người Mỹ và mẹ là người Hàn. Cô sáng lập và là giọng ca chính của ban nhạc indie pop Japanese Breakfast. Các album Psychopomp (2016) và Soft Sounds from Another Planet (2017) của cô đã thu hút được sự chú ý của các hãng thu âm lớn trên thế giới.

Crying In H Mart: A Memoir

1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American—“in losing her mother and cooking to bring her back to life, Zauner became herself” (NPR). • CELEBRATING OVER ONE YEAR ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST

In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food.

As she grew up, moving to the East Coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, and performing gigs with her fledgling band--and meeting the man who would become her husband--her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.

Vivacious and plainspoken, lyrical and honest, Zauner's voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, and complete with family photos, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.

Crying In H Mart

One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021

The New York Times bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her own identity in the wake of her loss.

'As good as everyone says it is and, yes, it will have you in tears. An essential read for anybody who has lost a loved one, as well as those who haven't' – Marie–Claire

In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humour and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother’s particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother’s tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the east coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, performing gigs with her fledgling band – and meeting the man who would become her husband – her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live.

It was her mother’s diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.

Vivacious, lyrical and honest, Michelle Zauner’s voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.

‘Possibly the best book I’ve read all year . . . I will be buying copies for friends and family this Christmas.’ – Rukmini Iyer in the Guardian ‘Best Food Books of 2021’

‘Wonderful . . . The writing about Korean food is gorgeous . . . but as a brilliant kimchi-related metaphor shows, Zauner’s deepest concern is the ferment, and delicacy, of complicated lives.’ – Victoria Segal, Sunday Times, ‘My favourite read of the year’