Water Ghosts - a novel
by Ryan, Shawna Yang
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VeryGood unmarked, no spine creases.
- ISBN 10
- 0143117270
- ISBN 13
- 9780143117278
- Seller
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Nevada City, California, United States
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About This Item
5 x 7-3/4, 259 pp.
Synopsis
A mesmerizing debut novel that weaves history and mythology around a community of Chinese immigrants and the ghosts that haunt them Locke, California, 1928. Three bedraggled Chinese women appear out of the mist in a small Chinese farming town on the Sacramento River. Two are unknown to its residents, while the third is the long-lost wife of Richard Fong, the handsome manager of the local gambling parlor. As the lives of the townspeople become inextricably intertwined with the newly arrived women, their frightening power is finally revealed. A lyrical imagining of what happens when a Chinese ghost story comes true, Water Ghosts is a rich tale of human passions and mingling cultures that will appeal to readers of Lisa See, Anchin Min, and Gail Tsukiyama.
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- Bookseller
- edburynbooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31614
- Title
- Water Ghosts - a novel
- Author
- Ryan, Shawna Yang
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback in color illus wraps.
- Book Condition
- Used - VeryGood unmarked, no spine creases.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st printing.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0143117270
- ISBN 13
- 9780143117278
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- Fiction, Poetry, Literature, Criticism
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