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China Fiction China Politics and government Fiction China Social life and customs Fiction Families Fiction Femmes d'âge moyen Chine Romans, nouvelles, etc Funérailles Rites et cérémonies Chine Romans, nouvelles, etc Mother-daughter relationship Fiction Pleureuses Chine Romans, nouvelles, etc Shanghai (China) Fiction Stigmatisation (Psychologie sociale) Romans, nouvelles, etcYanagihara, Hanya
Summary: When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC YANCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANLescure, Aube Rey
Summary: Shanghai, 2007: Fourteen-year-old Alva has always longed for more. Raised by her American expat mother, she’s never known her Chinese father, and is certain a better life awaits them in America. But when her mother announces her engagement to their wealthy Chinese landlord, Lu Fang, Alva’s hopes are dashed, and so she plots for the next best the American School in Shanghai. Upon admission,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESChen, Wendy
Summary: "At the turn of the twentieth century, Yun Hong is born into a loving family in the southern China countryside, but as Communism consumes her older brothers, it threatens her stability-and her love affair with the son of a wealthy landlord. The line of women who later descend from Yun Hong share the burden of a family birthmark and are also each forced to reckon with both dramatic political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHELü, Wenyan
Summary: "The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job and underappreciated by her husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of breakup. But just when things couldn't be bleaker, she takes a leap of faith--and in so doing, things start to take a surprising turn for the better"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2024