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MAMBO IN CHINATOWN.
de Kwok, Jean
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)/fine
- ISBN 10
- 1594632006
- ISBN 13
- 9781594632006
- Librería
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New York:: Riverhead Books,, 2014.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First printing. The author's second novel, about a young woman"torn between her family duties in Chinatown and her escape into the world of ballroom dancing. Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong grew up in New Yorks Chinatown, the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a noodle maker. Though an ABC (America-born Chinese), her entire world has been limited to this small area. Now grown, she lives in the same tiny apartment with her widower father and her eleven-year-old sister, and worksmiserablyas a dishwasher. But when she lands a job as a receptionist at a ballroom dance studio, Charlie gains access to a world she hardly knew existed, and everything she once took to be certain turns upside down. Gradually, at the dance studio, awkward Charlies natural talents begin to emerge. " 373 pp.
Sinopsis
From the bestselling author of Girl in Translation , a novel about a young woman torn between her family duties and her secret escapes into a more Western world. Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong grew up in New York’s Chinatown, the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a noodle maker. Though an ABC (America-born Chinese), Charlie’s entire world has been limited to this small area. Now grown, she lives in the same, tiny apartment with her widower father and her eleven-year-old sister, and works—miserably—as a dishwasher. But when she lands a job as a receptionist at a ballroom dance studio, Charlie gains access to a world she hardly knew existed, and everything she once took to be certain turns upside down. Slowly, within this new arenashy, clumsy, unfashionable Charlie’s own natural talents begin to emerge, and gradually her perspective, her expectations, and her sense of self all are transformed—something she must hide, at great pains, from her father and his suspicion of all things Western. As Charlie blossoms, though, her sister becomes chronically ill. As Pa insists on treating his ailing child exclusively with Eastern practices to no avail, Charlie is forced to find a way to reconcile her two selves and her two worlds—Eastern and Western, old world and new—to rescue her sister while also keeping her newfound confidence and identity.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 75320
- Título
- MAMBO IN CHINATOWN.
- Autor
- Kwok, Jean
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover first edition -
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- fine
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 1594632006
- ISBN 13
- 9781594632006
- Editorial
- Riverhead Books,
- Lugar de publicación
- New York:
- Fecha de publicación
- 2014.
- Palabras clave
- chinese american, dancing,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Asian and Asian American;
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