Lost men [electronic resource] : a novel / Brian Leung.
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.
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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)
- Physical Description: 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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