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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0307389227
ISBN-13: 9780307389220
Jan 2008
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
296 pages
Vintage Contemporaries Series
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Jen's first novel is about a Chinese immigrant family, the Changs, their struggle to make it in a new world, and their exploitation by a slick con artist.
| Details | | Series: | Vintage Contemporaries Series |
| Size | | Length: | 296 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 7.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"...Indeed an American story, and Gish Jen's immensely intelligent, thunderously funny, truly heartbreaking novel is perhaps the best story of contemporary immigrant experience ever to grace our literature."
Jayne Anne Phillips
"Gish Jen's first novel...is by any reasonable standard a rare accomplishment: mature, subtle, knowing, compassionate and, by no means least, funny. It tells the story of two Chinese immigrants to America, a brother and sister, whose determination to become 'typical American' leads them into any number of difficulties and adventures, in the process of which a good deal is revealed not merely about them but also about us."
Washington Post Book World - Jonathan Yardley (05/12/1996)
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