About this title: Wendy Law-Yone opens her first novel with the phrase of a survivor, "Living things prefer to go on living." A young woman and her older half-brother are expelled from their home in Burma by a savage political coup. Sent to elusive safety in America, the motherless siblings find themselves engulfed by the indifference, hypocrisy, and cruelty of an American society unable to deal with difference. Her brother's inevitable suicide drives the unnamed narrator into the seclusion of a mental hospital, where memories of her childhood and the strength it ingrained in her are enough to heal her heart ...
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Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First British Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780224029636ISBN:0224029630
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very Good/Very Good. First British Edition, Stated First Published in Great Britian 1984. Copyright 1983 by Wendy Law-Yone. This lovely cloth cover book, 195 pages long, is in very good condition, with light shelf wear, light bumping to the spine ends, light page edge soiling. The pages are tight, bright and clean, with light browning. The dust jacket is in very good condition, with light shelf wear, light bumping to the cover edges, light ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780224029636ISBN:0224029630
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A tightly bound, unmarked copy with similar dust wrapper. Pages very slightly yellowed at edges. 195 pages. read more
Edition: First British Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780224029636ISBN:0224029630
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very Good/Very Good. First British Edition. Stated First Published in Great Britian 1984. Copyright 1983 by Wendy Law-Yone. This lovely cloth bound book, 195 pages long, is in very good condition, with light shelf wear, light bumping to the spine ends and cover corners, light page edge soiling. The pages are tight, bright and clean, with light browning. The dust jacket is in very good condition, with moderate shelf wear, light bumping to the ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 1983-03-12
ISBN-13:9780394529578ISBN:039452957X
Description: Very Good in Collectible: Good jacket. Signed by author on half title page. First edition. Dust jacket is sunned along spine. Not ex-lib. Original price is $12.95. read more
Edition: First printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780394529578ISBN:039452957X
Description: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (rem mark, crease to front flap of dj, some sunning to spine of dj. ) Hardcover first edition-First novel by this Burmese author, the story of a young woman and her brother, children of a wealthy family, forced to leave Burma after a savage political coup, who arrive in America and must cope both with destitution and being in an alien country. 195 pp. read more
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