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Ghost town : a novel in 45 chapters
- Title
- Ghost town : a novel in 45 chapters / Kevin Chen ; translated from the Mandarin (and the Taiwanese) by Darryl Sterk.
- Author
- Chen, Kevin (Actor)
- Publication
- New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2022.
- ©2019
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 22-2636 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Sterk, Darryl
- Description
- 327 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Keith Chen, the second son of a traditional Taiwanese family of seven, runs away from the oppression of his village to Berlin in the hope of finding acceptance as a young gay man. The novel begins a decade later, when Chen has just been released from prison for killing his boyfriend. He is about to return to his family's village, a poor and desolate place. With his parents gone, his sisters married, mad, or dead, there is nothing left for him there. As the story unfurls, we learn what tore this family apart and, more importantly, the truth behind the murder of Chen's boyfriend. Told in a myriad of voices, both living and dead, and moving through time with deceptive ease, Ghost Town weaves a mesmerizing web of family secrets and countryside superstitions, the search for identity and clash of cultures"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Gay fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- LGBTQ+ fiction.
- Asian gay men.
- Gay identity.
- Novels.
- Language (note)
- In English, translated from the Chinese and the Taiwanese.
- Call Number
- JFD 22-2636
- ISBN
- 9781609457983
- 1609457986
- 9781787703919
- 1787703916
- OCLC
- 1305913337
- Author
- Chen, Kevin (Actor), author.
- Title
- Ghost town : a novel in 45 chapters / Kevin Chen ; translated from the Mandarin (and the Taiwanese) by Darryl Sterk.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- In English, translated from the Chinese and the Taiwanese.
- Added Author
- Sterk, Darryl, translator.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781787703926
- Research Call Number
- JFD 22-2636