The pagoda
a novel
1st ed.
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Word Count
61,250 words, Guess
Page Count
245 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL354817M
- ISBN-100679454896
- OCLC Control Number38519202
- OCLC Control Numberpagodanovel00powe
- Library of Congress Control Number98014568
and 2 more
- Goodreads527393
- LibraryThing295797
Classifications
- DDC813
- LCCPR9265.9.P68 P34 1998
Description
Lowe, the Chinese immigrant, is in his fifties - the owner of a small shop in an impoverished plantation village, and the guardian of a secret that is gradually revealed. Writing to a long-estranged daughter, Lowe tells her what happened during their years apart - a tale of exile from China, of estrangement from family, of shipboard adventures, of an unwanted pregnancy, of the arrangement that was made to avoid a possible scandal, of the three decades of living as man and wife with a light-skinned black woman named Sylvie. It is a story of the destruction of a world: the burning of Lowe's shop. It describes Lowe's dream of building a Pagoda - a school where Chinese workers might learn about their history and become a part of Jamaican life.
First Sentence
A million thank yous to the Corporation of Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Cottages at Hedgebrook, and the U Mass grant that brought me to Jamaica again, for research.
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