Transparency : stories / Frances Hwang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hwang, Frances.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Fiction.

Immigrants.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

219 pages, 8 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Little, Brown, 2007.

Summary:

With a deceptively simple yet graceful style, and in the tradition of Lara Vapnyar, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Gish Jen, Frances Hwang captures the thousand minor battles waged in the homes of immigrants--struggles to preserve timehonored traditions or break free of them, to maintain authority or challenge it, and to take advantage of modern excesses without diluting one's ethnic identity. In "Garden City," a weary Chinese couple, struggling to evict their deadbeat tenant, is forced to face the aftermath of their teenage son's death from cancer. And in "The Old Gentleman," a daughter becomes alienated from her father when he finds love--or what he thinks could be love--in his old age. Frances Hwang is a powerful talent, and TRANSPARENCY not only showcases her myriad gifts, but also announces the arrival of an exciting new voice.

Contents:

The old gentleman

A visit to the suns

Remedies

Giving a clock

Blue hour

Transparency

Sonata for the left hand

The modern age

Intruders

Garden city.

ISBN:

0316166936

9780316166935

OCLC:

71210202