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Family Catastrophe

By Wen-Hsing Wang

Family Catastrophe

By Wen-Hsing Wang

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Description
Set in post-1949 Taiwan, this novel is an intimate revelation of a family's journey to catastrophe. The rather of the all-too-ordinary Fan family suddenly flees from home; his son, Fan Yeh, sets off to search for him but is repeatedly unsuccessful, returning alone to the anxiously waiting mother. As it tracks Fan Yeh's fruitless search, Wang Wen-hsing's innovative narrative unfolds the history of this family, depicting relationships both tender and brutal and divulging secrets of poverty and abuse, love and hate.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
272
Release Date:
1995-07-30
Publication Date:
1995-07-01
Publisher:
University of Hawaii Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0824817109
ISBN13:
9780824817107
Weight:
295 g
Height:
134 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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