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The jade peony Cover Image Book Book

The jade peony

Choy, Wayson 1939- (Author).

Summary: "Chinatown, Vancouver, in the late 1930s and ï??40s provides the setting for this poignant first novel, told through the vivid and intense reminiscences of the three younger children of an immigrant family. They each experience a very different childhood, depending on age and sex, as they encounter the complexities of birth and death, love and hate, kinship and otherness. Mingling with the realities of Canada and the horror of war are the magic, ghosts, paper uncles and family secrets of Poh-Poh, or Grandmother, who is the heart and pillar of the family."--Provided by the publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9780312155568 (hc.)
  • ISBN: 9781550544688 (trade pbk.)
  • ISBN: 1550544683 (trade pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0312155565 (hc)
  • Physical Description: print
    238 p. ; 20 cm.
    278 p. ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, 1997, c1995.

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Subject: Chinese Canadians -- Fiction
Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.) -- History -- Fiction
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Canadian fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Historical fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Alert Bay Public Library.

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Alert Bay Public Library AF CHO (Text) 35125000002117 Canadian Volume hold Available -

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