THE JADE PEONY - A Novel
de Choy, Wayson
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- Firmado
- Estado
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 1550544683
- ISBN 13
- 9781550544688
- Librería
-
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 1995. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). Later Printing. 8vo. 238 pp. Signed by Wayson Choy on the half-title page. Trade paperback with French Flaps. Light rubbing on the corners; price intact; aside from the author's signature, no interior markings. Told through the reminiscences of the three young children of an immigrant Chinese family, this captures the realities of prejudice, the mishaps of adolescence, and the horrors of an impending world war, in Vancouver's Chinatown during the early 1940s..
Sinopsis
The Jade Peony is a novel by Wayson Choy. It was first published in 1995 by Douglas and McIntyre. The novel features stories told by three siblings, Jook-Liang, Jung-Sum and Sek-Lung or Sekky. Each child tells their own unique story, revealing their personal flaws and differences. Set in Vancouver's Chinatown, the novel also explores the ways in which the Chinese and majority of Canadians once viewed the Japanese. Takes place in the war times
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Detalles
- Librería
- W. Fraser Sandercombe
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 224483
- Título
- THE JADE PEONY - A Novel
- Autor
- Choy, Wayson
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+
- Edición
- Later Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1550544683
- ISBN 13
- 9781550544688
- Editorial
- Douglas and McIntyre
- Lugar de publicación
- Vancouver
- Fecha de publicación
- 1995
- Tamaño
- 8vo
- Palabras clave
- china; chinese; immigrant; asian; poverty; canadiana; canadian author;
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Historical adventure;
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Sobre el vendedor
W. Fraser Sandercombe
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Burlington, Ontario
Sobre W. Fraser Sandercombe
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
