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list price: $19.95
edition:Paperback
category: Fiction
published: Feb 1993
ISBN:9780888947215
publisher:
Douglas & McIntyre
Description
Sometimes funny, sometimes scandalous, always riveting, this extraordinary first novel traces the lives and passionate loves of the women of the Wong family through four generations. As past sins and inborn strengths are passed on from mother to daughter to granddaughter, each generation confronts, in its own way, the same problems -- isolation, racism the clash of cultures -- and each evolves a little bit more.
Moving back and forth between past and present, between Canada and China, SKY Lee weaves fiction and historical fact into a memorable and moving picture of a people's struggle for identity.
Disappearing Moon Cafe won the 1990 City of Vancouver Book Award and was short-listed for the Governor General's Award of the same year.
Awards
- Winner, City of Vancouver Book Award
- Runner-up, Governor General's Award
Editorial Review
"If Gabriel Garcia Marquez had been Canadian-Chinese, and a woman, One Hundred Years of Solitude might have come out a little bit like this."
— Washington Post Book World
