An American missionary in China, David Treadup, is the protagonist of John Hersey's magnificent novel, a novel whose richness of character, color, and incident both explores the evangelical impulse in this country--the peculiarly American spirit of wanting to help others--and reflects the whole comp
Griever: An American Monkey King in China
โ Scribed by Vizenor, Gerald
- Book ID
- 108049491
- Publisher
- Univ Of Minnesota Press
- Year
- 1990
- Weight
- 8 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780816618491
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โฆ Synopsis
Griever de Hocus, an American, reservation-born tribal trickster, becomes a teacher at Zhou Enlai University in China, but is soon flouting the state bureaucracy like the cosmic trickster common to both Chinese and Native American mythology
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