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Author:

Garstang, Clifford, author.

Title:

What the Zhang boys know : a novel in stories / Clifford Garstang.

Edition:

First Edition.

Publisher:

Press 53,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

201 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Neighbors--Washington (D.C.)--Fiction.
Condominiums--Washington (D.C.)--Fiction.
City and town life--Washington (D.C.)--Fiction.
Chinatown (Washington, D.C.)--Fiction.
Voisins--Washington (D.C.)--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Vie urbaine--Washington (D.C.)--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
City and town life.
Condominiums.
Neighbors.
Washington (D.C.)
Washington (D.C.)--Chinatown.
Fiction.
Short stories.

Contents:

Nanking mansion -- A hole in the wall -- The face in the window -- Last lilacs -- The game of love -- Counterpoint -- What the Zhang boys know about life on planet Earth -- Hunger -- The nations of witness -- Artoyen's razor -- The replacement wife -- The shrine to his ancestors.

Summary:

"Set in a condominium building on the edge of Chinatown in Washington, D.C., these stories present the practical and emotional struggles of Zhang Feng-qi, originally from Shanghai, to find a new mother for his sons following the death of his American wife. Along the way, the stories spotlight Zhang's neighbors as they seek to fill gaps in their own lives: the young bookseller diagnosed with a life-threatening illness; the young lawyer trying to cope with a failed marriage; the obsessive painter haunted by the image of a face; the middle-aged woman forced to sell her possessions in order to survive; the sculptor, overwhelmed by longing for the son he didn't know he had. And then there are the Zhang boys, who firmly believe that their mother is coming back. What is it that they know?"--Amazon.com.

ISBN:

1935708619
9781935708612

OCLC:

(OCoLC)813987923

LCCN:

2012909930

Locations:

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)