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The Chosen Shore

- Stories of Immigrants
Engelsk Paperback

The Chosen Shore

- Stories of Immigrants
Engelsk Paperback

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A Korean street child is adopted into an upper-middle-class suburban home. A Vietnamese monk dishes up fast food to fund a spiritual center. A woman saves for a home back in Ghana, where she will never live. All are immigrants to the United States, known to most of their fellow Americans only as statistics. The stories that statistics can't tell unfold in this book, in which twenty-three recent immigrants recall navigating the paradoxes, pitfalls, and triumphs of becoming Americans. Candid, evocative, and richly detailed, their oral histories comprise a compelling portrait of the changing face of the American population. In venues from the San Francisco Chronicle to the New York Times, Ellen Alexander Conley's fiction has been hailed as "wonderful," "impassioned," and "memorable." Conley brings the same passion and skill to her depiction of our nation's most recent arrivals. These personal histories, along with Conley's thoughtful overview of literature on immigration, give us a firsthand sense of what it means to become an American.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
304
ISBN-13:
9780520239883
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0520239881
Udg. Dato:
13 sep 2004
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
University of California Press
Oplagsdato:
13 sep 2004
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