Paper Shadows: A Memoir of a Past Lost and Found - Softcover

Choy, Wayson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312284152 ISBN 13: 9780312284152

Publisher: Picador USA, 2001

Synopsis

An award-winning novelist offers a moving memoir of his discovery at the age of fifty-seven that he was adopted, and his realization, in the process of uncovering his life's secrets, that his art and his life are wonderfully intertwined. Governor General's Award shortlist. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Wayson Choy was raised in Vancouver. His novel The Jade Peony was selected as one of the American Library Association Notable Books of 1998 and shared the Trillium Book Award for best book of 1996 with Margaret Atwood. His memoir Paper Shadows was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award. He is a full-time professor at Humber College in Toronto.

Synopsis:

This haunting memoir, from the bestselling author of "The Jade Peony" tells the story of Wayson Choy's childhood in Vancouver's old Chinatown. Delving into the secrets of his past, Choy is startled by the revelation that he was adopted, and so begins the search for his real mother.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador USA
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0312284152
• ISBN 13: 9780312284152
• Binding: Paperback