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WATER GHOSTS (original title Locke, 1928.)
by Ryan, Shawna Yang
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
New York:: Penguin,, 2009.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy, but with a remainder line.). First hardcover edition. The author's first novel, originally published in trade paperback only by a small press. Set in the Chinese town of Locke, in the Sacramento delta of California in 1928. Author's notes. SIGNED on the title page. 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's Inventory #
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- Title
- WATER GHOSTS (original title Locke, 1928.)
- Author
- Ryan, Shawna Yang
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- New Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy, but with a remainder line.)
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Penguin,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 2009.
- Keywords
- locke, california, sacramento river delta, chinese american, asian american,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Fiction;
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