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The jade peony [electronic resource] : a novel / Wayson Choy.
Three siblings tell the stories of their very different childhoods in Vancouver's Chinatown before and during World War II.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781926706764 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1926706765 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)
- Publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Douglas & McIntyre, c1995
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Cover Image; Praise for The Jade Peony; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Author's Note; Epigraph; Part One: Jook-Liang, Only Sister; One; Two; Three; Part Two: Jung-Sum, Second Brother; Four; Five; Six; Seven; Part Three: Sek-Lung, Third Brother; Eight; Nine; Ten; Eleven; Twelve; Thirteen; Fourteen; Fifteen; Acknowledgements; A Reading Group Guide for The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy; |
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Electronic resources
- Perseus PublishingChinatown, 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 horror of war are the magic, ghosts, paper uncles and family secrets of Poh-Poh, or Grandmother, who is the heart and pillar of the family.
Wayson Choy's Chinatown is a community of unforgettable individuals who are ?neither this nor that,â neither entirely Canadian nor Chinese. But with each other's help, they survive hardship and heartbreak with grit and humour.
