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The train to Lo Wu : stories / Jess Row.
Van Pelt Library PS3618.O87255 T73 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Row, Jess.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hong Kong (China)--Fiction.
- Hong Kong (China).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 190 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- In these exquisitely imagined stories, Jess Row's Hong Kong is a city filled with outsiders, where race, sex, religion, and culture collide to forge surprising connections. A Chinese girl and her American teacher attempt to understand the "blindness" of bats in an effort to locate the ghost of her suicidal mother. An American graduate student provokes a Chinese masseuse into recalling his traumatic experiences of the Cultural Revolution to unintended results. A Hong Kong businessman learns the limits of his potency when he falls in love with a prim Chinese girl from the provinces. These beautifully rendered tales provoke unexpected consequences and reverberate with universal truths.
- ISBN:
- 0385337892
- OCLC:
- 56387392
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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