Paper Shadows : A Memoir of a Past Lost and Found by Wayson Choy (2000, Hardcover)

Picador

0312262183

9780312262181

1679595

Paper Shadows : a Memoir of a Past Lost and Found

352 Pages

English

2000

Cultural Heritage, General, Literary, Adoption & Fostering

Yes

Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography

Wayson Choy

Hardcover

1.2 in

17.4 Oz

8.6 in

6.8 in

Trade

00-047880

"Lyrically blends the mature adult voice and perspective with the fully realized persistence of memory in childhood." --Seattle Times "With striking narrative immediacy...[Choy] has evoked from memory and imagination a childhood memoir of crystalline clarity." --Boston Globe "The author's narrative gifts make this book an extraordinary and intimate account of life in the Chinese Diaspora." --Booklist- starred review "A deceptively charming return to a painfully isolated Chinese ÉmigrÉ culture in which the magical and the mundane conceal heroic complexities of the heart." --Kirkus Reviews, "Lyrically blends the mature adult voice and perspective with the fully realized persistence of memory in childhood." -- Seattle Times "With striking narrative immediacy...[Choy] has evoked from memory and imagination a childhood memoir of crystalline clarity." -- Boston Globe "The author's narrative gifts make this book an extraordinary and intimate account of life in the Chinese Diaspora." -- Booklist - starred review "A deceptively charming return to a painfully isolated Chinese émigré culture in which the magical and the mundane conceal heroic complexities of the heart." -- Kirkus Reviews, "Lyrically blends the mature adult voice and perspective with the fully realized persistence of memory in childhood." --Seattle Times "With striking narrative immediacy...[Choy] has evoked from memory and imagination a childhood memoir of crystalline clarity." --Boston Globe "The author's narrative gifts make this book an extraordinary and intimate account of life in the Chinese Diaspora." --Booklist - starred review "A deceptively charming return to a painfully isolated Chinese ÉmigrÉ culture in which the magical and the mundane conceal heroic complexities of the heart." --Kirkus Reviews

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Shortlisted for the Governor General's Award A startlingly vivid memoir of a Chinatown childhood by the author of the award-winning novel The Jade Peony. Three weeks before his 57th birthday, novelist Wayson Choy received a surprising phone call during his publicity tour: a mysterious woman told him that he had been adopted. Inspired by this astonishing revelation, this beautifully-wrought memoir reveals uncanny similarities between the colorful secrets that enrich Wayson Choy's award-winning novel set in prewar Chinatown and the subsequently discovered secrets of his own life.

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