Isbn: 9781836750130 - chinese fish (6 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ping leaves Hong Kong for a prosperous life in New Zealand - or so she has been led to believe. Instead she works long hours frying fish in a rat-infested shop, and at home contends with a dissolute husband and four children who struggle with their mother's unhappiness. Polyphonic and richly textured, Chinese Fish is an intergenerational saga spanning the 1960s to the 1980s. It is an intimate insight into family dynamics, oral and written legacies, migratory histories, and the lives of mothers and daughters. 'For these immigrantsfrom the impoverishedunsanitaryvillages of China,where beggars and vagabonds are numerous,and lepers peculiarly wretched,where the coast is infestedwith pirates, childrenkidnapped and sold, and whole familieslive on boats,New Zealand is a paradise.'.…

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