The Distant Land of My Father: A Los Angeles Times Bestseller – Gripping Literary Saga of Family, Love, and War (Harvest Book) - Softcover

Caldwell, Bo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156027135 ISBN 13: 9780156027137

Verlag: Mariner Books, 2002

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Anna, the narrator of this riveting novel, lives in a storybook world: exotic pre-World War II Shanghai, with handsome young parents, wealth, and comfort. Her father, the son of missionaries, leads a charmed and secretive life, though his greatest joy is sharing his beloved city with his only daughter. Yet when Anna and her mother flee Japanese-occupied Shanghai to return to California, he stays behind, believing his connections and a little bit of luck will keep him safe.

Through Anna's memories and her father's journals we learn of his fall from charismatic millionaire to tortured prisoner, in a story of betrayal and reconciliation that spans two continents. The Distant Land of My Father, a breathtaking and richly lyrical debut, unfolds to reveal an enduring family love through tragic circumstances.

National Bestseller

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BO CALDWELL is the author of The Distant Land of My Father and City of Tranquil Light. A graduate of Stanford University, where she later held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and a Jone Lectureship in Creative Writing, her honors include the Georgia Shreve Prize in Fiction at Stanford University, and the Joseph Henry Jackson Award from the San Francisco Foundation. Caldwell has written personal essays for O, The Oprah Magazine, the Washington Post Magazine, and America Magazine, and her short stories have been published in such literary journals as Story, Ploughshares, and Epoch. She lives in Northern California with her husband, novelist Ron Hansen.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Mariner Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0156027135
• ISBN 13: 9780156027137
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 394
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