Lost men a novel
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- ISBN: 9780307408525 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
- ISBN: 0307408523 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
- ISBN: 9780307408525 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
- ISBN: 0307408523 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
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280 p. ; 21 cm. - Publisher: New York : Three Rivers Press, c2008.
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Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : Three Rivers Press, 2008. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Requires Adobe Digital Editions 6 (file size: 1113 KB) or Mobipocket Reader 4.7 (file size: 295 KB). |
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Subject: | Fathers and sons -- Fiction China -- Fiction |
Genre: | Electronic books. |
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Summary:
Westen Chan was just eight years old when his Caucasian mother died and his father, Xin, sent him away to be raised by her relatives. Twenty years later, after a lifetime of estrangement, Westen receives an invitation from his father to travel with him to China--a promise Xin once made when Westen was a child. So it is that two strangers--a father and a son--travel halfway around the world to a land that one of them knows intimately and the other has never seen. As they tour the country, the two men reveal themselves slowly and awkwardly: Westen's history of failed relationships and his conflicted cultural identity; Xin's regret at leaving his son and the terrible secret he's kept too long. And in the end, their relationship may just hinge on the contents of a sealed letter written by Westen's mother before her death--one that threatens to answer the lifelong question neither of them has dared to ask.