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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
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By
Jamie Ford
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Eligible for Price includes NZ wide delivery!  In stock at a supplier's warehouse| Rating: | | | Format: | Paperback, 384 pages | | Published In: | Australia, 01 August 2011 |
In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps during World War II. As the owner displays and unfurls a Japanese parasol, Henry, a Chinese American, remembers a young Japanese American girl from his childhood in the 1940s - Keiko Okabe, with whom he forged a bond of friendship and innocent love that transcended the prejudices of their Old World ancestors. After Keiko and her family were evacuated to the internment camps, she and Henry could only hope that their promise to each other would be kept. Now, forty years later, Henry explores the hotel's basement for the Okabe family's belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot even begin to measure. His search will take him on a journey to revisit the sacrifices he has made for family, for love, for country. |
About the AuthorJamie Ford is the great-grandson of Nevada mining pioneer Min Chung, who emigrated from Kaiping, China, to San Francisco in 1865, where he adopted the Western name 'Ford,' thus confusing countless generations. Ford is an award-winning short-story writer, an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and a survivor of Orson Scott Card's Literary Boot Camp. Having grown up near Seattle's Chinatown, he now lives in Montana with his wife and children. Prizes'...A tender and satisfying novel that ...gives us a glimpse of the damage that is caused by war - not the sweeping damage of the battlefield, but the cold, cruel damage to the hearts and humanity of individual people. Especially relevant in today's world, this is a beautifully written book that will make you think. But, more importantly, it will make you feel.' - Garth Stein, author of The Art of Racing in the Rain. 'I loved it! Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is a beautiful and tender masterpiece. A book everyone will be talking about, and the best book you'll read this year.' Anne Frasier, author of Garden of Darkness. 'An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut.' - Lisa See, of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.
| Publisher: | Allen & Unwin | | ISBN: | 1742378285 |
| EAN: | 9781742378282 | | Dimensions: | 19.0 x 13.0 centimeters (0.37 kg) |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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