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02546aam a2200433Ii 4500 001 45B45230780011EBB85B79874CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210226010012 008 200109t20202020wau 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0761456953 020 $a 9780761456957 020 $a 1542041503 020 $a 9781542041508 035 $a (OCoLC)1135205014 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCQ $d WC4 $d UAP $d OCLCF $d BDX $d ORX $d CNEDM $d NZAUC $d CNCAR $d OCLCO $d TOH $d OCL $d OCLCO $d IOU $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h chi 050 4 $a 819.32 Z34.2 2020 082 04 $a [Fic] 100 1 $a Zhang, Ling, $d 1957- $e author. 240 10 $a Laoyan. $l English 245 12 $a A single swallow / $c by Zhang Ling ; translated by Shelly Bryant. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Seattle, WA : $b Amazon Crossing, $c 2020. 300 $a 291 pages ; $c 23 cm 500 $a Previously published as Laoyan by People's Literature Publishing House in China in 2017. 520 $a "On the day of the historic 1945 Jewel Voice Broadcast, in which Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's surrender to the Allied forces, bringing an end to World War II, three men, flush with jubilation, made a pact. After their deaths, each year on the anniversary of the broadcast, their souls would return to the Chinese village of their younger days. It's where they had fought, and survived, a war that shook the world and changed their own lives in unimaginable ways. Now, seventy years later, the pledge is being fulfilled by American missionary Pastor Billy, brash gunner's mate Ian Ferguson, and local soldier Liu Zhaohu. All that's missing is Ah Yan, also known as Swallow, the girl each man loved, each in his own profound way. As they unravel their personal stories of the war, and of the woman who touched them so deeply during that unforgiving time, the story of Ah Yan's life begins to take shape, woven into view by their memories. A woman who had suffered unspeakable atrocities."--Publisher. 650 0 $a Missionaries $z United States $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Americans $z China $y 20th century $v Fiction. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Interpersonal relations $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Recollection (Psychology) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a War fiction. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Bryant, Shelly, $e translator. 941 $a 2 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20210629010342.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210226010040.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=45B45230780011EBB85B79874CECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search