Mambo in Chinatown Mambo in Chinatown

Mambo in Chinatown

A Novel

    • 9,99 €
    • 9,99 €

Descrição da editora

From the bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation, a novel about a young woman torn between her family duties in Chinatown and her escape into the world of ballroom dancing.

Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong grew up in New York’s Chinatown, the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a noodle maker. Though an ABC (America-born Chinese), Charlie’s entire world has been limited to this small area. Now grown, she lives in the same tiny apartment with her widower father and her eleven-year-old sister, and works—miserably—as a dishwasher.

But when she lands a job as a receptionist at a ballroom dance studio, Charlie gains access to a world she hardly knew existed, and everything she once took to be certain turns upside down. Gradually, at the dance studio, awkward Charlie’s natural talents begin to emerge. With them, her perspective, expectations, and sense of self are transformed—something she must take great pains to hide from her father and his suspicion of all things Western. As Charlie blossoms, though, her sister becomes chronically ill. As Pa insists on treating his ailing child exclusively with Eastern practices to no avail, Charlie is forced to try to reconcile her two selves and her two worlds—Eastern and Western, old world and new—to rescue her little sister without sacrificing her newfound confidence and identity.

GÉNERO
Ficção e literatura
LANÇADO
2014
24 de junho
IDIOMA
EN
Inglês
PÁGINAS
384
EDITORA
Penguin Publishing Group
TAMANHO
1,3
MB

Mais livros de Jean Kwok

Girl in Translation Girl in Translation
2010
Zij die achterbleef Zij die achterbleef
2024
Neiti Marplen jäljillä Neiti Marplen jäljillä
2023
Panna Marple Panna Marple
2023
The Leftover Woman The Leftover Woman
2023
Histórias de Miss Marple Histórias de Miss Marple
2023

Outros também compraram

How to Be an American Housewife How to Be an American Housewife
2010
Paper Names Paper Names
2023
Dragon Springs Road Dragon Springs Road
2017
China Boy China Boy
1991
Family Trust Family Trust
2018
The Color of Air The Color of Air
2020