Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2021
ISBN 10: 0385547218 ISBN 13: 9780385547215
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Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2021
ISBN 10: 0385547218 ISBN 13: 9780385547215
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Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2021
ISBN 10: 0385547218 ISBN 13: 9780385547215
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Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2021
ISBN 10: 0385547218 ISBN 13: 9780385547215
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Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2022
ISBN 10: 0593313003 ISBN 13: 9780593313008
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Zustand: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2022
ISBN 10: 0593313003 ISBN 13: 9780593313008
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Verlag: Diversified Publishing, 2021
ISBN 10: 0593460014 ISBN 13: 9780593460016
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Zustand: Very Good. 39. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Verlag: Random House Large Print (edition Large type / Large print), 2021
ISBN 10: 0593460014 ISBN 13: 9780593460016
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Verlag: Vintage (edition ), 2022
ISBN 10: 0593313003 ISBN 13: 9780593313008
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Verlag: Vintage (edition ), 2022
ISBN 10: 0593313003 ISBN 13: 9780593313008
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Verlag: Doubleday, 2021
ISBN 10: 0385547218 ISBN 13: 9780385547215
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Verlag: Viking, 2021
ISBN 10: 024151469X ISBN 13: 9780241514696
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Verlag: Viking 30/09/2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 024151469X ISBN 13: 9780241514696
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Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2021
ISBN 10: 024151469X ISBN 13: 9780241514696
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK, OBAMA 2021 BOOK PICK and INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Hunger was a constant, reliable friend in Mei Guo. She came second only to loneliness.' In China she was the daughter of professors. In Brooklyn her family is 'illegal.' Qian is just seven when she moves to America, the 'Beautiful Country', where she and her parents find that the roads of New York City are not paved with gold, but crushing fear and scarcity. Unable to speak English at first, Qian and her parents must work wherever they can to survive, all while she battles hunger and loneliness at school. Thus begins an extraordinary story that describes, in vivid colours, days labouring in sweatshops and sushi factories, nights scavenging the streets for furniture, and the terrifying moment when the family emerges from the shadows to seek emergency medical treatment for Qian's mother. Qian Julie Wang's memoir is an unforgettable account of what it means to live under the perpetual threat of deportation and the small joys and sheer determination that kept her family afloat in a new land. Told from a child's perspective, in a voice that is intimate, poignant and startlingly lyrical, Beautiful Country is the story of a girl who learns first to live - and then escape - an invisible life. 'A powerful, gripping insight into the world of an undocumented migrant in New York . . . beautifully written, with vivid scenes that linger in the mind long after finishing it' Helena Merriman 'A story that needs to be heard. Moving, beautiful, heartbreaking and even funny . . . I never wanted it to end' Philippa Perry 'Deeply compelling . . . I was moved by the love and resilience of this family thrust into darkness. The book casts an urgent light on a reality that extends way beyond America's borders' Hisham Matar, author of A Month in Siena and The Return 'Astonishing . . . In restrained but beautiful prose, Wang honours her family's sacrifices, but alerts us to the urgent realisation that they should not be necessary' Nesrine Malik. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Viking, 2022
ISBN 10: 0241514703 ISBN 13: 9780241514702
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Verlag: Viking, 2022
ISBN 10: 0241514703 ISBN 13: 9780241514702
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: VIKIN, 2021
ISBN 10: 024151472X ISBN 13: 9780241514726
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Viking, 2022
ISBN 10: 0241514703 ISBN 13: 9780241514702
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Verlag: Viking, 2022
ISBN 10: 0241514703 ISBN 13: 9780241514702
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Zustand: LikeNew. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
Verlag: VIKIN, 2021
ISBN 10: 024151472X ISBN 13: 9780241514726
Anbieter: medimops, Berlin, Deutschland
Zustand: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Jul 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0241514703 ISBN 13: 9780241514702
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK, OBAMA 2021 BOOK PICK and INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Hunger was a constant, reliable friend in Mei Guo. She came second only to loneliness.' In China she was the daughter of professors. In Brooklyn her family is 'illegal.' Qian is just seven when she moves to America, the 'Beautiful Country', where she and her parents find that the roads of New York City are not paved with gold, but crushing fear and scarcity. Unable to speak English at first, Qian and her parents must work wherever they can to survive, all while she battles hunger and loneliness at school. Thus begins an extraordinary story that describes, in vivid colours, days labouring in sweatshops and sushi factories, nights scavenging the streets for furniture, and the terrifying moment when the family emerges from the shadows to seek emergency medical treatment for Qian's mother. Qian Julie Wang's memoir is an unforgettable account of what it means to live under the perpetual threat of deportation and the small joys and sheer determination that kept her family afloat in a new land. Told from a child's perspective, in a voice that is intimate, poignant and startlingly lyrical, Beautiful Country is the story of a girl who learns first to live - and then escape - an invisible life.'A powerful, gripping insight into the world of an undocumented migrant in New York . . . beautifully written, with vivid scenes that linger in the mind long after finishing it' Helena Merriman'A story that needs to be heard. Moving, beautiful, heartbreaking and even funny . . . I never wanted it to end' Philippa Perry'Deeply compelling . . . I was moved by the love and resilience of this family thrust into darkness. The book casts an urgent light on a reality that extends way beyond America's borders' Hisham Matar, author of A Month in Siena and The Return'Astonishing . . . In restrained but beautiful prose, Wang honours her family's sacrifices, but alerts us to the urgent realisation that they should not be necessary' Nesrine Malik.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Sep 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0593313003 ISBN 13: 9780593313008
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to 'beautiful country.' Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. In China, Qian's parents were professors; in America, her family is 'illegal' and it will require all the determination and small joys they can muster to survive. In Chinatown, Qian's parents labor in sweatshops. Instead of laughing at her jokes, they fight constantly, taking out the stress of their new life on one another. Shunned by her classmates and teachers for her limited English, Qian takes refuge in the library and masters the language through books, coming to think of The Berenstain Bears as her first American friends. And where there is delight to be found, Qian relishes it: her first bite of gloriously greasy pizza, weekly 'shopping days,' when Qian finds small treasures in the trash lining Brooklyn's streets, and a magical Christmas visit to Rockefeller Center--confirmation that the New York City she saw in movies does exist after all. But then Qian's headstrong Ma Ma collapses, revealing an illness that she has kept secret for months for fear of the cost and scrutiny of a doctor's visit. As Ba Ba retreats further inward, Qian has little to hold onto beyond his constant refrain: Whatever happens, say that you were born here, that you've always lived here. Inhabiting her childhood perspective with exquisite lyric clarity and unforgettable charm and strength, Qian Julie Wang has penned an essential American story about a family fracturing under the weight of invisibility, and a girl coming of age in the shadows, who never stops seeking the light.' -- provided by publisher.
ISBN 10: 0385548028 ISBN 13: 9780385548021
Anbieter: medimops, Berlin, Deutschland
Zustand: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 024151472X ISBN 13: 9780241514726
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK, OBAMA 2021 BOOK PICK and INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Hunger was a constant, reliable friend in Mei Guo. She came second only to loneliness.' In China she was the daughter of professors. In Brooklyn her family is 'illegal.' Qian is just seven when she moves to America, the 'Beautiful Country', where she and her parents find that the roads of New York City are not paved with gold, but crushing fear and scarcity. Unable to speak English at first, Qian and her parents must work wherever they can to survive, all while she battles hunger and loneliness at school. Thus begins an extraordinary story that describes, in vivid colours, days labouring in sweatshops and sushi factories, nights scavenging the streets for furniture, and the terrifying moment when the family emerges from the shadows to seek emergency medical treatment for Qian's mother. Qian Julie Wang's memoir is an unforgettable account of what it means to live under the perpetual threat of deportation and the small joys and sheer determination that kept her family afloat in a new land. Told from a child's perspective, in a voice that is intimate, poignant and startlingly lyrical, Beautiful Country is the story of a girl who learns first to live - and then escape - an invisible life.'A powerful, gripping insight into the world of an undocumented migrant in New York . . . beautifully written, with vivid scenes that linger in the mind long after finishing it' Helena Merriman'A story that needs to be heard. Moving, beautiful, heartbreaking and even funny . . . I never wanted it to end' Philippa Perry'Deeply compelling . . . I was moved by the love and resilience of this family thrust into darkness. The book casts an urgent light on a reality that extends way beyond America's borders' Hisham Matar, author of A Month in Siena and The Return'Astonishing . . . In restrained but beautiful prose, Wang honours her family's sacrifices, but alerts us to the urgent realisation that they should not be necessary' Nesrine Malik.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd, 2021
ISBN 10: 024151469X ISBN 13: 9780241514696
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 320 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.
Verlag: Penguin Books UK|Viking, 2022
ISBN 10: 0241514703 ISBN 13: 9780241514702
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK, OBAMA 2021 BOOK PICK and INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Hunger was a constant, reliable friend in Mei Guo. She came second only to loneliness. In China she was the daugh.
Verlag: Diversified Publishing Okt 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0593460014 ISBN 13: 9780593460016
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to 'beautiful country.' Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. In China, Qian's parents were professors; in America, her family is 'illegal' and it will require all the determination and small joys they can muster to survive'.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2022
ISBN 10: 0593313003 ISBN 13: 9780593313008
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. QIAN JULIE WANG is a graduate of Yale Law School and Swarthmore College. Formerly a commercial litigator, she is now managing partner of Gottlieb & Wang LLP, a firm dedicated to advocating for education and civil rights. Her writing has appeared in publ.