We two alone : stories / Jack Wang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wang, Jack, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--China--Fiction.

Immigrants.

China.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

248 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First HarperVia edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2021.

Summary:

"Set on five continents and spanning decades, We Two Alone traces the arc and evolution of the Chinese immigrant experience. A young laundry boy risks his life, pretending to be a girl to play organized hockey in Canada in the 1920s. A Canadian couple is caught in when Shanghai is succumbs to violence during the Second Sino-Japanese War. A family struggles to buy a home in South Africa in the early years of apartheid. An actor in New York struggles to keep his career alive while yearning to reconcile with his estranged wife. From the vulnerable and disenfranchised to the educated and privileged, the characters in this extraordinary collection embody the diversity of the Chinese diaspora past and present. In these deeply affecting stories, Jack Wang subverts expectations as he captures the hope, pain, and sacrifices of the millions who journey into the unknown to create better lives, and explores the shifting boundaries of morality, the intimacies and failings of love, and the choices circumstances force us to make."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The Valkyries

The Nature of Things

The Night of Broken Glass

Everything In Between

Belsize Park

Allhallows

We Two Alone.

ISBN:

9780063081789

0063081784

OCLC:

1199126173