The pagoda
a novel
by Patricia Powell
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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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Fiction, Immigrants, Chinese, Plantation life, History, Fiction, general, Jamaica, fiction, New York Times reviewedPlaces
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The pagoda: a novel
1999, Harcourt Brace & Company
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0156008297 9780156008297
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The pagoda: a novel
1998, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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0679454896 9780679454892
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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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