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A richly imagined novel--set in wartime Vietnam, Thailand, Mexico, Sicily, and contemporary America--about men and women whose jolting encounters with the unfamiliar force them to realize how many "riffs there are to being human." Travelers, colonials, immigrants, and returned ex-pats meet or pass one another in narratives spanning lifetimes. In the book's opening, an engineer in Vietnam is shaken to discover why his company's planes are getting lost. A modern marriage between a Thai Muslim and an American woman leads to a terrible family fight. In 1920s Siam a young woman experiences the colonial stance of her tin-prospecting brother. The last section returns the brother to the States, older now but ever in love with Asian women. Love, loss, yearning, self-delusion, and forgiveness are here in ways fresh and surprising. And in the tradition of E. M. Forster, seeing the size of the world changes the meaning of home-sickness for all the characters.
- Medium
- Papier
- Genres
- General Fiction, Fiction and Literature
- Angeboten von
- W.W. Norton (Verleger)
(User: ) - Lieferung
- April 2008 Startet: 2008-04-01Abgeschlossen: 2008-04-08
- Im Verkauf
- 2008-07-28
- Länder
- Kanada, Vereinigte Staaten
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