'A Single Swallow' is the eagerly awaited English translation of award-winning author Zhang Lings epic and intimate novel about the devastation of war, forgiveness, redemption, and the enduring power of love. Born in China, Ling moved to Canada in 1986 and lives in Toronto, ON.
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'A Single Swallow' is the eagerly awaited English translation of award-winning author Zhang Lings epic and intimate novel about the devastation of war, forgiveness, redemption, and the enduring power of love. Born in China, Ling moved to Canada in 1986 and lives in Toronto, ON.
From the 1860s to the present day, chronicles the lives of five generations of a Chinese family from Guandong Province who are transformed by the promise of a better life in Canada.
"There was rarely a time when Phoenix Yuan-Whyller's mother, Rain, didn't live with her. Even when Phoenix got married, Rain, who followed her from China to Toronto, came to share Phoenix's life. Now at the age of eighty-three, Rain's unexpected death ushers in a heartrending sep...
The dangerous streets of Nanjing throw together a group of opposites, a flock of shell-shocked schoolchildren, a dozen seductive courtesans, and a renegade American posing as a priest to save his own skin, or so he thinks, all seeking safety behind a walled cathedral. Trapped by ...
Conflict between the fourteen-year-old girlfriend of a gang member and the gang leader leads to tragic consequences.
A catastrophic disaster in China triggers a mother's heartbreaking choice and a daughter's reconciliation with the past in a powerful novel by the author of A Single Swallow and Where Waters Meet. In the summer of 1976, an earthquake swallows up the city of Tangshan, China. Among...
While protecting his friend from a school bully, sixteen-year-old Wei Bu pushes the bully down a staircase. He later learns that the bully is hospitalized, gravely injured. Wei's neighbor, 60-year-old Wang Jin, decides to join him as does Huang Ling, Wei's classmate. Together, th...
Ben shu shi shen cong wen wei yi yi bu chang pian xiao shuo, yu " bian cheng " bing cheng de ling yi bu tian yuan shi zuo, miao xie le zai chen he an bian de yi ge xiao zhen lü jia ping shang, " xin sheng huo yun dong " gei xiang min dai lai de zhong zhong bian hua.