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Bezig met laden... Paper Shadows: A Memoir of a Past Lost and Founddoor Wayson Choy
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I adored Choy's first 2 novels - Jade Peony and it's sequel, and the basis of this memoir sounded so intriguing- after discussing his first novel on the radio the author gets a phone call telling him heat his parents were not his real parents. What follows is is search for the truth, but first we get his memoirs. Sadly they are in dire need of an editor. There is too much repetition and too much time spent on boring details, on the other hand, intriguing details are given a bare mention and never elaborated upon. ( ) I have always been curious to read Wayson Choy's other book The Jade Peony, but ended up having to read this one first. I was somewhat bored by the beginning, but as it went on I got more engrossed by it (It was lucky that I had to finish reading the book as it was required by a university course, or else I would have tossed it aside long ago.) This book, to me, is distinctly Canadian even though it talks about pre and post-war Chinatown and Chinese in Victoria and Vancouver, BC. The language is clean and very easy to read. It reminds me of Alistair MacLeod's No Great Mischief. Recommended. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Three weeks before his 57th birthday, novelist Wayson Choy received a surprising phone call during his publicity tour: a mysterious woman told him that he had been adopted. Inspired by this astonishing revelation, this beautifully-wrought memoir reveals uncanny similarities between the colorful secrets that enrich Wayson Choy's award-winning novel set in prewar Chinatown and the subsequently discovered secrets of his own life. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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