The Train to Lo Wu

Jess Row

ISBN 10: 0385337906 / ISBN 13: 9780385337908

Verlag: Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2006

Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G0385337906I4N10

Inhaltsangabe:

Set against the panoramic backdrop of modern-day Hong Kong, a debut anthology of short fiction captures the colorful lives of the inhabitants of this culturally diverse city, from a Chinese girl and her American teacher searching for the ghost of her suicidal mother, a masseur reliving the trauma of the Cultural Revolution, and a businessman who falls in love with a bar hostess. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Jess Row is a graduate of Yale University, and received his MFA from the University of Michigan. His stories have been included in the Best American Short Stories 2001 and 2003 anthologies, as well as in Ploughshares. He is the recipient of a 2003 Whiting Writers Award and an NEA grant. He lives in New York, where he is at work on a novel.


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Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Train to Lo Wu
Verlag: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket