CANADA AUTHOR · CHINESE · FICTION
Wayson Choy
"I SAW YOUR MOTHER LAST WEEK."
— from Paper Shadows, 1999
Most acclaimed
All That Matters
1956
Would she be a wife or a handicap? Wealth and social standing meant little to Glynis. Her aim in life was domestic: a husband and a quiet home, somewhere away from it all. But Steven Grant-Tally didn't fit into this image. He was handsome, clever, rich, highly successful, and he moved in glittering social circles entirely alien to her. He had everything and he needed a glamour girl for his career. With his egotism and his ambition to climb the ladder of fame, Steven was the reverse of all Glynis's simple ideals. That was what worried Glynis about her fiance. She loved him despite the differences in their backgrounds, but she didn't move in his expensive, luxurious world, and she didn't approve of the hectic glamour of his social life. Could shy and retiring Glynis, with her hand-made clothing and simple ideals, be a match for the other woman in his life...? All she wanted to be was his wife. They were in love, but could love bind them together? Could their marriage survive on love alone when there was such an insuperable barrier between them?
Paper Shadows
1999
"Three weeks before his fifty-seventh birthday, novelist Wayson Choy received a mysterious phone message during his publicity tour for The Jade Peony. When he called the number, an older woman's voice answered, telling him that she had just seen his mother on the streetcar. Wayson politely informed her that his mother had died two decades earlier. "No, no, not your mother," the voice insisted; "your real mother."". "The woman on the phone was right: He had, in fact, been adopted. So, three weeks before his fifty-seventh birthday, Wayson Choy became an orphan.". "This astonishing revelation inspires the beautifully wrought, sensitively told Paper Shadows, the story of a Chinatown past, lost and found. From his early experiences with the ghosts of old Chinatown to his discovery later in life of closely guarded family secrets that crossed the ocean from mainland China to Gold Mountain, this multilayered portrait of a child's world reveals uncanny similarities between the colorful secrets that enrich Wayson Choy's award-winning The Jade Peony and the subsequently discovered secrets of his own life."--BOOK JACKET.
Prentice Hall literature
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