The Jade Peony is a 2010 Canada Reads Selection! Chinatown, Vancouver, in the late 1930s and '40s provides the setting for this poignant first novel, told through the vivid and intense reminiscences of the three younger children of an immigrant family. They each experience a very different childhood, depending on age and sex, as they encounter the complexities of birth and death, love and hate, kinship and otherness. Mingling with the realities of Canada and the… (mehr)
Verlag: Douglas & McIntyre ( 1. Dezember 2009)
Format: EPUB
Seitenzahl: 240 Seiten
Dateigröße: 297 KB
Schutz: DRM
Sprache: Englisch
History gets up close and personal thanks to these intimate looks at historical events, and the perspectives of people who lived them.