On gold mountain
a family memoir of love, struggle and survival
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Word Count
98,500 words, Guess
Page Count
394 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveongoldmountainfa0000seel
- ISBN-100747599076
- ISBN-139780747599074
- OCLC Control Number267196155
- Better World Books9780747599074
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL40232338M
Classifications
- DDC973.04951
- LCCF870.C5 S44 2009
- LCCE184.C5
Description
In 1867, Lisa See's great-great-grandfather left China in search of riches on the 'Gold Mountain', the Chinese name for the promised land of America. His son Fong See later built a mercantile empire and married a Caucasian woman, in spite of laws that prohibited unions between the races. Through sheer endeavour and entrepreneurial genius he became one of the most successful Chinese men in the country. Over the decades, each generation of the See family strived to grasp their dreams, realise their ambitions and overcome their disappointments and sorrows. This sweeping chronicle of five generations of a Chinese-American family encompasses stories of adventure and heartache, racism and romance, secret marriages and sibling rivalries. On Gold Mountain is a powerful social history of two cultures meeting in a new world.
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