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A carregar... The Foreignerpor Francie Lin
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I liked this book for its interesting blend of humor and thought-provoking story elements introduced by the unique narrator. Takes place in San Francisco and in Taipei and features a loveable ogre of a mom who reigns long after her death... ( ) Emerson Chang is a buttoned-up, forty-year-old Taiwanese-American. He's always known that his mother preferred his younger brother, Little P, even though Little P lost touch with the family ten years ago after moving back to Taiwan. But even so, it comes as a shock to Emerson when after his mother's death, he finds out that she left her motel to Little P. Emerson goes to Taipei to track down his brother, and enters a grimy, dystopian twilight world. The book then rapidly declines into foreigner-in-nightmarishly-incomprehensible-situation cliche. Walls drip with mould. Sinister comments are made. People Emerson has just met issue obscure warnings: "get out now ... I can't tell you why. I have an obligation." Terrified women are glimpsed in dark corners. And I, regretfully (because it would be nice to read a good book set in Taiwan), close the book and hurl it from me. Esta crítica foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Críticos do LibraryThing. This is one of the first EarlyReviewers books I have read and thoroughly enjoyed. It was a wonderful first novel - gripping, solid, sharp & streetwise. I found the character & voice of Emerson compelling - certainly an interesting choice for a main character, and I think Lin pulls off both her portrayal of him and working through him as a narrative voice very well. The prose is beautiful without becoming overwrought or sugary, the plot is engaging, and the few drawbacks included a somewhat hazy sense of time and the characters of Little P and Angel, which I felt at times were somewhat strained, bordering on unrealistic. Overall, I excited to see what Lin will produce in the future. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Emerson, a man of Taiwanese descent living in the U.S., who speaks no Chinese, travels to Taiwan to scatter his mother's ashes. He must convey a disputed inheritance to his brother who is involved in the Taiwanese criminal underworld and who conceals a secret which has alienated him from his family. Emerson hopes to appease both the living and the dead by discovering his brother's secret and save what is left of his family. This is a darkly comic tale of crime and contrition about what is means to be a foreigner, even in one's own family. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — A carregar... GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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