Fifteen years after the publication of her critically acclaimed first novel, BONE, Ng returns to the scene, offering a searing portrait of another immigrant struggling to get by in San Francisco s Chinatown. Butcher Jack Szeto spends long hours at his job, attempting to buy his freedom from Yi-Tung Gold Szeto. Jack entered the country illegally in 1952, posing as the son of the powerful entrepreneuer; in return, he must work off his debt and pretend to marry the much younger woman Yi-Tung wants to take as his second wife. Jack, however, has fallen in love with free-spirited Joice Qwan, and when she tells him she is pregnant with his child, he longs for the freedom to marry her. He decides to cooperate with the Chinese Confession program, telling them of his false identity, which results in Szeto s deportation. Though Yi-Tung exacts a terrible revenge, and Joice refuses to marry him, Jack finds true serenity in the years spent raising their daughter. Ng brings to this moving story both a sensuous, poetic style and an understated tone that only serves to underline the immigrant struggle. {Joanne Wilkinson, Booklist} Author Fae Myenne Ng was one of twenty novelists listed by GRANTA as one of the Best American Novelists under forty, as chosen by Robert Stone, Anne Tyler, Tobias Wolff, and Ian Jack. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L61.

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STEER TOWARD ROCK

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Hyperion Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Fecha de publicaci�n

2008

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0786860979

ISBN 13

9780786860975

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Hardcover

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As New

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Fine

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A solitary bachelor butcher in San Francisco's McCarthy-era Chinatown, Jack Szeto serves the left-behind housewives of Central Valley farm laborers, falls in love with the free-spirited daughter of a shunned mortician, and na�vely triggers a heartbreaking retaliatory act. 30,000 first printing.

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Fae Myenne Ng was born in San Francisco, and lives in Northern California and New York City. Her short stories have appeared in Harper's and other magazines, and have been widely anthologized.

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