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THE LEAVERS: A Novel.
de Ko, Lisa
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 1616206888
- ISBN 13
- 9781616206888
- Librería
-
Ione, California, United States
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Chapel Hill, NC:: Algonquin Books,, (2017). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The author's first novel, nominated for the National Book Award, 2017 and winner of the PEN/Bellweather Prize. "One morning, Deming Guos mother, Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salonand never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left mystified and bereft. Eventually adopted by a pair of well-meaning white professors, Deming is moved from the Bronx to a small town upstate and renamed Daniel Wilkinson. But far from all hes ever known, Daniel struggles to reconcile his adoptive parents desire that he assimilate with his memories of his mother and the community he left behind. Told from the perspective of both Daniel and Polly, Kos novel gives us one of fictions most singular mothers. Loving and selfish, determined and frightened, Polly is forced to make one heartwrenching choice after another. Set in New York and China, 'The Leavers' is a vivid examination of borders and belonging." The jacket is the first state dust jacket with the Ann Patchett blurb on the front cover: "if you want to understand a forgotten and essential part of the world we live in, 'The Leavers' is required reading. 335 pp.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 88196
- Título
- THE LEAVERS: A Novel.
- Autor
- Ko, Lisa
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover first edition -
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- fine
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 1616206888
- ISBN 13
- 9781616206888
- Editorial
- Algonquin Books,
- Lugar de publicación
- Chapel Hill, NC:
- Fecha de publicación
- (2017)
- Palabras clave
- PEN/Bellweather Prize, first novel, immigrants, women authors, chinese americans,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Asian and Asian American;
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