The Last Ship - Couverture souple

Shinebourne, Jan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845232461 ISBN 13 : 9781845232467

Editeur : Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

In a moving novel that charts the fortunes of three generations of a Chinese family in the Caribbean, Jan Shinebourne explores the power of family myth, the seductiveness of invented traditions, and the way unconscious motivations seeded in painful childhood experience can resurface in adult life. For Joan Wong, growing up in a Chinese family in the political turmoil of 1960s Guyana, family history is never straightforward. There are the examples of her grandmothers Clarice Chung, iron-willed matriarch who has ensured the family s survival through unremitting toil, with her pride in maintaining racial and cultural identity, and Susan Leo, whose failures have shamed the family, who found comfort from harsh poverty in relationships with two Indian men and adopting an Indian life-style. Later, when Joan Wong makes her own pilgrimage to ancestral China at the turn of the twenty-first century, there are surprises in store.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jan Lowe Shinebourne was born in Guyana and now lives in Sussex, U.K. She has published four novels and a collection of short stories.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845232461
• ISBN 13: 9781845232467
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 226
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible