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God of luck / Ruthanne Lum McCunn.
LIBRA PS3613.C38665 G63 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCunn, Ruthanne Lum.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islands.
- Guano.
- Agricultural laborers.
- History.
- Forced labor.
- Chinese.
- Kidnapping.
- China.
- Peru.
- Kidnapping--China--Fiction.
- Chinese--Peru--History--19th century--Fiction.
- Forced labor--Peru--Fiction.
- Agricultural laborers--Peru--History--19th century--Fiction.
- Guano--Peru--Fiction.
- Islands--Peru--Fiction.
- Slavery--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 239 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Soho Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- "Ah Lung and his beloved wife, Bo See, are separated by a cruel fate when, like thousands of other Chinese men in the nineteenth century, he is kidnapped, enslaved and shipped to the deadly guano mines off the coast of Peru. Using their wits and praying to the God of Luck, they never lose hope of someday being reunited"--Publisher description.
- ISBN:
- 1569474664
- 9781569474662
- 9781569475188
- 1569475180
- OCLC:
- 73744012
- Online:
- Publisher description
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