Disappearing Moon Cafe - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 088894683X ISBN 13: 9780888946836

Synopsis

Kae Ying Woo attempts to piece together the tangled and hidden history of the Wong family, starting from 1892 when Wong Gwei left China for British Columbia

About this title

Review

"A feisty, complex, and award-winning first novel."
Booklist

"This ambitious and vastly entertaining first novel follows four generations of a troubled Chinese-Canadian family through its gradual and often painful assimilation and eventual disintegration . . . The lively, often riotous spirit of Disappearing Moon Cafe is never lost in the epic sprawl. This is a moving, deeply human tale about the high price of assimilation, the loneliness of being of two cultures but no longer really belonging to either and the way in which the sordid secrets of the past can cast long, tragic shadows . . . If Gabriel Garcia Marquez had been Canadian-Chinese, and a woman, A Hundred Years of Solitude might have come out a little bit like this."
Washington Post Book World

"Powerfully and elaborately wrought, Lee's first novel traces generations of a Chinese-Canadian family and their ties to (and clashes with) one another, their culture, and their land in China and North America . . . the layers of experience, emotion and cultural identity of succeeding generations build to an abundantly detailed story."
Publishers Weekly

About the Author

SKY Lee grew up in Port Albermi, BC. In the late 1960s, she was a founder of the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop. Her debut novel, Disappearing Moon Cafe, was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award and won the City of Vancouver Book Award. SKY Lee currently resides in Toronto.

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 088894683X
• ISBN 13: 9780888946836
• Binding: Hardcover