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World and Town
Gish Jen
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2010-10-05
主題
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Women
Fiction / Small Town & Rural
ISBN
0307594416
9780307594419
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XKQBdncI-RUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The award-winning author of
Thank You, Mr. Nixon
and
The Resisters
delivers “[a] triumph of a novel.... Jen reflects America, at its best, its worst, its most vulnerable” (
The Miami Herald
), and asks deep questions about religion, love, home, and meaning.
Hattie Kong, a retired teacher and a descendant of Confucius, has decided that it’s time to start over. She moves to the peaceful New England town of Riverlake, a place that once represented the rock-solid base of American life. Instead of quietude, Hattie discovers a town challenged by cell-phone towers, chain stores, and struggling farms. Soon Hattie is joined by an immigrant Cambodian family on the run, and—quite unexpectedly—Carter Hatch, a love from her past.
