โ Brian J. Clarke
๐ Fiction
๐
2010
๐ UND
โ 33 KB
๐ 2 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Long for This World
โ Scribed by Sonya Chung
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Year
- 2010;2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 166 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 143910171X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Pushcart Prize nominee Sonya Chung has displayed her stunning talent in her award-winning short fiction and essays. Now, she renders the compelling story of a troubled family straddling cultures, fleeing and searching, in her piercing and profoundly humane first novel.
In 1953, on a small island in Korea, a young boy stows away on the ferry that is carrying his older brother and his wife to the mainland. Fifty-two years later, Han Hyun-kyu is on a plane flying back to Korea, leaving behind his own wife in America. It is his daughter, Jane a war photographer recently injured in a bombing in Baghdad and forced to return to New York who journeys to find him in the small town in South Korea where his brothers have settled. Here, father and daughter take refuge from their demons, flirt with passion, and, in the wake of tragedy, discover something deeper and more enduring than they could have imagined.
Just as Monica Ali's Brick Lane introduced readers to a world...
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
โ Andrea Levy
๐ Fiction
๐
2010
๐ Headline Publishing Group Ltd
๐ English
โ 187 KB
๐ 2 views
Now A Major Bbc Tv Drama, Starring Tamara Lawrance, Lenny Henry And Hayley Atwell. A Sunday Times Bestseller, Shortlisted For The Man Booker Prize, The Long Song By Andrea Levy Is A Hauntingly Beautiful, Heartbreaking And Unputdownable Novel Of The Last Days Of Slavery In Jamaica, For Those Who Love
โ Andrea Levy
๐ Fiction
๐
2010
๐ Farrar, Straus and Giroux
๐ English
โ 227 KB
๐ 2 views
SUMMARY: THE AUTHOR OF "SMALL ISLAND "TELLS THE STORY OF THE LAST TURBULENT YEARS OF SLAVERY AND THE EARLY YEARS OF FREEDOM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY JAMAICA "Small Island "introduced Andrea Levy to America and was acclaimed as "a triumph" ("San Francisco Chronicle"). It won both the Orange Prize and
โ Andrea Levy
๐ Fiction
๐
2010
๐ Farrar, Straus and Giroux
๐ English
โ 226 KB
๐ 2 views
SUMMARY: THE AUTHOR OF "SMALL ISLAND "TELLS THE STORY OF THE LAST TURBULENT YEARS OF SLAVERY AND THE EARLY YEARS OF FREEDOM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY JAMAICA "Small Island "introduced Andrea Levy to America and was acclaimed as "a triumph" ("San Francisco Chronicle"). It won both the Orange Prize and th
โ Andrea Levy
๐ Fiction
๐
2010
๐ PENGUIN GROUP (CANADA);Hamish Hamilton Canada
๐ English
โ 175 KB
๐ 2 views
You do not know me yet but I am the narrator of this work. My son Thomas, who is printing this book, tells me it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within its pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica du
โ Andrea Levy
๐ Fiction
๐
2011
๐ Picador
๐ English
โ 189 KB
๐ 2 views
Finalist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize _The New York Times Book Review_ Notable Book of the Year In her follow-up to _Small_ _Island,_ winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction, Andrea Levy once again reinvents the historical novel. Told in the irresistibly w