- Chinese, Biography, Social conditions, Family
The ethos of family is dramatically portrayed by Denise Chong in this tale of her grandmother, brought from China as a young concubine by a sojourner to the New World, of the man's wife and the children who would be left behind, and of the author's own incredible discovery of those children six decades later.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and resolved.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Denise Chong
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 292
- Publisher
- Penguin Canada, Penguin (Non-Classics), Penguin
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140255140
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