A lyric celebration of the physical and spiritual endurance of two Chinese men who quest for wholeness of the soul...The settings are brilliantly evoked. Sydney Morning Herald His writing is as spare and controlled, yet as eloquent, as flowing and compelling as the finest Oriental painting. The Australian A prize-winning novel from one of Australia's most acclaimed and lyrical writers, Birds of Passage is the vividly told story of Seamus O'Young, an Australian-born Chinese who is on a collision course with his past. Shan ...
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A lyric celebration of the physical and spiritual endurance of two Chinese men who quest for wholeness of the soul...The settings are brilliantly evoked. Sydney Morning Herald His writing is as spare and controlled, yet as eloquent, as flowing and compelling as the finest Oriental painting. The Australian A prize-winning novel from one of Australia's most acclaimed and lyrical writers, Birds of Passage is the vividly told story of Seamus O'Young, an Australian-born Chinese who is on a collision course with his past. Shan is an ancestor of Seamus, one of many Chinese who came to Australia in the 1850s only to be driven from the goldfields by depravity, racism and greed. It is through the eyes of Shan that Seamus comes to understand the fight he is making for his own life and sanity in a society yet to come to terms with its own unease about difference and diversity.
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Very Good. Size: 0x0x0; 157 clean, unmarked, tightly-bound, slightly tanned pages; green dot sticker on front cover and small price sticker on rear cover; cover has minimal shelf wear.
Add this copy of Birds of Passage to cart. $60.38, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Allen & Unwin.
