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Heaven Lake : a novel
- Title
- Heaven Lake : a novel / John Dalton.
- Author
- Dalton, John, 1963-
- Publication
- New York : Scribner, c2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PS3604.A4355 H43 2004 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 451 p. : 1 map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Vincent Saunders has graduated from college, left his small hometown in Illinois, and arrived in Taiwan as a Christian volunteer. After opening a ministry house, he meets a wealthy Taiwanese businessman, Mr. Gwa, who tells Vincent that on his far travels to western China he has discovered a beautiful young woman living near the famous landmark Heaven Lake. Elegant, regal, clever, she works a lowly clerk in the local railway station. Gwa wishes to marry her, but is thwarted by the political conflict between China and Taiwan. In exchange for a sum of money, will Vincent travel to China on Gwa's behalf, take part in a counterfeit marriage, and bring her back to Taiwan for Gwa to marry legitimately? Vincent, largely innocent about the ways of the world and believing that marriage is a sacrament, says no. Gwa is furious." "Soon, though, everything Vincent understands about himself and his vocation in Taiwan changes. Supplementing his income from his sparsely attended Bible-study classes, he teaches English to a group of enthusiastic schoolgirls - and it is his tender, complicated friendship with a student that forces Vincent to abandon the ministry house and sends him on a path toward spiritual reckoning. It also causes him to reconsider Gwa's extraordinary proposition."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Christian fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Love stories.
- ISBN
- 0743246349
- LCCN
- 2003059123
- OCLC
- ocm52813779
- SCSB-4873781
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries