The Lost Daughter of Happiness: A Novel
Los Angeles Times bestseller -- now in paperback.A "sensuous and disquieting new novel" [New York Times] from one of China's most acclaimed novelists, the award-winning screenwriter of Joan Chen's film Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down GirlThe Lost Daughter of Happiness is an epic and moving love story of...
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Los Angeles Times bestseller -- now in paperback.A "sensuous and disquieting new novel" [New York Times] from one of China's most acclaimed novelists, the award-winning screenwriter of Joan Chen's film Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down GirlThe Lost Daughter of Happiness is an epic and moving love story of individuals intoxicated with one another and yet repeatedly separated by prejudice and mistrust. The novel chronicles the lives of the main characters over decades against a backdrop of social turmoil -- the anti-Chinese hysteria that plagued San Francisco.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780786887576 (0786887575)
Publish date: May 22nd 2002
Publisher: Hyperion
Pages no: 278
Edition language: English
I can't quite make up my mind about this book. It was either really good or really bad. The protagonist was either bland and boring or too complex and foreign for me to understand. And this second person narrative when the narrator/author is having a private conversation with the main character and ...
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