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An edition of The pagoda (1998)

The pagoda

a novel

1st ed.

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Lowe, the Chinese immigrant, is in his fifties - the owner of a small shop in an impoverished plantation village, and the guardian of a secret that is gradually revealed.

Writing to a long-estranged daughter, Lowe tells her what happened during their years apart - a tale of exile from China, of estrangement from family, of shipboard adventures, of an unwanted pregnancy, of the arrangement that was made to avoid a possible scandal, of the three decades of living as man and wife with a light-skinned black woman named Sylvie. It is a story of the destruction of a world: the burning of Lowe's shop.

It describes Lowe's dream of building a Pagoda - a school where Chinese workers might learn about their history and become a part of Jamaican life.

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Knopf, Distributed by Random House
Language
English
Pages
245

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Subjects
Fiction, Immigrants, Chinese, Plantation life, History, Fiction, general, Jamaica, fiction, New York Times reviewed
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Jamaica

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Cover of: The pagoda
The pagoda: a novel
1999, Harcourt Brace & Company
in English - 1st Harvest ed.
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Cover of: The pagoda
The pagoda: a novel
1998, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English - 1st ed.
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Cover of: Pagoda
Pagoda
Publish date unknown, Alfred A Knopf
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Dewey Decimal Class
813
Library of Congress
PR9265.9.P68 P34 1998

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Pagination
245 p. ;
Number of pages
245

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OL354817M
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ISBN 10
0679454896
LCCN
98014568
OCLC/WorldCat
38519202
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295797
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527393

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"A million thank yous to the Corporation of Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Cottages at Hedgebrook, and the U Mass grant that brought me to Jamaica again, for research."

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