Gold Mountain Blues [electronic resource]
Zhang, Ling2017
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One Family.
Five generations.
An epic story of love and loss. China, 1879
With the Opium wars at their height, Fong Tak-Fat boards a ship to Canada, determined to make a life for himself and support his family back home. He will endure great hardship as he works to build the Pacific Railway and save every penny he makes to reunite his family.
Canada, 2004
Amy Smith knows nothing of her family history, a secret her mother will not share, until she is summoned to her ancestral home in China to collect the forgotten belongings of family members whom she has never met. Can Amy finally unlock the door to her past?
Telling the story of one family's journey through five generations and across the seas, Gold Mountain Blues is a heartrending tale of sacrifice, endurance, hope and survival.
Main title:
Gold Mountain Blues [electronic resource] / Ling Zhang
Author:
Zhang, Ling, AuthorHarman, Nicky, Translator
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Corvus, 2017
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
LING ZHANG was born in 1957 in Hangzhou of Zhejiang Province in China and moved to Canada in 1986. She is the multi-award-winning author of four novels and three collections of short stories. She currently lives in Toronto.
ISBN:
9780857896742
Language:
English
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BRN:
2803020
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