- Fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, general
Moonlight illuminates Chai and his wife, Ding, who enjoy the view from their backyard deck and recite Chinese poetry to each other. Chai, a disillusioned former Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution, has achieved a version of the immigrant's dream: he works as a banker in New York, is the father of a healthy baby daughter, and enjoys a contented marriage.
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Classical in form, intimate, resolved and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- John Derbyshire
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 281
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Griffin, St. Martin's Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780312156497
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“After putting Hetty to bed we had played a game of Scrabble, according to our custom.”
John Derbyshire is a British-born American paleoconservative political commentator, writer, journalist and computer programmer. He formerly wrote a column in National Review before moving to a staff position at the white nationalist website VDARE, where he continues to work. *--Wikipedia*
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