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The Long March Home (Paperback)
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The Long March Home (Paperback)
Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction
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Loot Price R448
Discovery Miles 4 480
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Fiction. Asian American Studies. THE LONG ROAD HOME is the story of
three generations of women, beginning with a grandmother who as a
young woman went to China as a Canadian missionary nurse and fell
in love with a Chinese medical student acting as her interpreter.
Shortly after anti-western sentiment sends her home to Nova Scotia,
she discovers she is pregnant. Attempts by her, and later their
daughter, to contact him fail. Her daughter, Meihua, goes to China
to look for her father and winds up marrying a Chinese man and
teaching art. The cultural revolution sees her sent to prison as a
American spy and anti-revolutionary, and her husband confined to a
gulag. Their children, still at home, are raised by the family's
illiterate servant, Yao. Yao's crude manner and resourcefulness
partly shield Yezi, Meihua's daughter, and the novel's main
character, as well as her brother, from family tragedy, poverty and
political discrimination, negotiating their survival during the
revolution that she barely understands. Only after her mother is
released, does Yezi learns about her foreign grandmother, Agnes,
who now lives in Boston and has lost contact with the family since
Yezi's birth. Curious about her American ancestry, Yezi decides to
join her grandmother in the U.S. Reading her grandmother's diaries
helps Yezi get to know her grandmother as a young Canadian
missionary and her life in China with the man who is her
grandfather, and who her mother still longs to find.
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