Pagoda: A Novel - Hardcover

Powell, Patricia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679454896 ISBN 13: 9780679454892

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1998

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Lowe, an immigrant who flees China in the 1890s to seek a better life in Jamaica, finds adventure, estrangement, scandal, and romance as he becomes the owner of a small shop and plays a role in the building of the Pagoda, a school where Chinese workers learn about their history and are assimilated into Jamaican life

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y original and exotic novel that brings to life the mysterious world of a Chinese immigrant who fled China in the 1890s to seek a better life in Jamaica--a mesmerizing tale of love, longing, and hidden identity. Jamaica is in turmoil--still reeling from the racial and economic tensions of Emancipation, which brought Indian and Chinese workers to the island from other parts of the British Empire.

Lowe, the Chinese immigrant, is in his fifties--the owner of a small shop in an impoverished plantation village, and the guardian of a secret that is gradually revealed. Writing to a long-estranged daughter, Lowe tells her what happened during their years apart--a tale of exile from China, of estrangement from family, of shipboard adventures, of an unwanted pregnancy, of the arrangement that was made to avoid a possible scandal, of the three decades of living as man and wife with a light-skinned black woman named Sylvie. It is a story of the destruction of a world: the burning of Lowe's shop. It d

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679454896
• ISBN 13: 9780679454892
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 245