| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780140254273 | | Publisher: Penguin Books | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 30016193 | | Item#: RC9XQ7 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 7.75H x 5.25L x 0.75T |
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| | | Chong tells the story of her grandmother, brought from China as a young concubine by a sojourner to the New World, of the man's wife and children left behind, and of the author's incredible discovery of those children six decades later. "Beautiful, haunting, and wise".--New York Times Book Review. Photos.
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This is the true story, culled from letters, photographs, and memories, of the author's grandmother, brought to America from China as a young concubine by a traveler. It is also the story of the same man's abandoned wife and children, and of author Chong's discovery of those children 60 years later. One man's exploits resulted in a family living on two continents: a traditional wife in a village in South China and a concubine working in the Chinatowns of the West Coast. A tangled web of a story expertly told by Chong, an economist and writer.
| PraiseNew York Times Book Review
"'The Concubine's Children' gives readers far more than just another shading of the truth. Beautiful, haunting and wise, it lingers in the mind like a portrait one returns to often in a family album, and elicits the same mysterious response of love, melancholy and pride." - David Guterson 1/15/95 |
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