- Poor families, Brothers and sisters, Chinese, Fiction
Chinatwon, Vancouver, of the early 194Os provides the backdrop for this fresh, uplifting, award-winning first novel, told through the reminiscences of the three young children of an immigrant Chinese family.
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Earnest, character-led, prestige and grave.
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Wayson Choy
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 238
- Publisher
- Other Press, LLC, Douglas & McIntyre, Penguin
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780312186920
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