Transparency Stories

Name: Transparency Stories
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ISBN: 9780316166935

ISBN-10: 0316166936

ISBN-13: 9780316166935

Edition: 2007

Authors: Frances Hwang

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With a deceptively simple yet graceful style, and in the tradition of Lara Vapnyar, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Gish Jen, Frances Hwang captures the thousand minor battles waged in the homes of immigrants--struggles to preserve timehonored traditions or break free of them, to maintain authority or challenge it, and to take advantage of modern excesses without diluting one's ethnic identity. In "Garden City," a weary Chinese couple, struggling to evict their deadbeat tenant, is forced to face the aftermath of their teenage son's death from cancer. And in "The Old Gentleman," a daughter becomes alienated from her father when he finds love--or what he thinks could be love--in his old age. Frances Hwang…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Publication date: 4/18/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



The old gentleman


A visit to the suns


Remedies


Giving a clock


Blue hour


Transparency


Sonata for the left hand


The modern age


Intruders


Garden city


Acknowledgments


Reading group guide