The Jade Peony
Told through the reminiscences of the three young children of an immigrant Chinese family, an uplifting novel 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.
Told through the reminiscences of the three young children of an immigrant Chinese family, an uplifting novel 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.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780312155568 (0312155565)
Publish date: May 1st 1997
Publisher: Picador Usa
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Canada,
China,
Canadian Literature
I enjoyed this. It feels as though I took a trip - or rather three trips, since it consists of three linked first-person narratives - into a cultural place I knew nothing about, namely the Chinese community in Vancouver before and during WWII. While the three narratives are from the point of view of...
I would have liked this book better if it had not been narrated by children. That's just me. I got through it only because I love Asian culture and as a Vancouverite, could easily follow along with the descriptions of the settings. Part of what made this book a bit of a drag to read was the const...
8 years ago
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