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Lost Men A Novel

Westen Chan was just eight years old when his Caucasian mother died and his father, Xin, sent him away to be raised by her relatives. Twenty years later, after a lifetime of estrangement, Westen receives an invitation from his father to travel with him to China--a promise Xin once made when Westen was a child. So it is that two strangers--a father and a son--travel halfway around the world to a land that one of them knows intimately and the other has never seen. As they tour the country, the two men reveal themselves slowly and awkwardly: Westen's history of failed relationships and his conflicted cultural identity; Xin's regret at leaving his son and the terrible secret he's kept too long. And in the end, their relationship may just hinge on the contents of a sealed letter written by Westen's mother before her death--one that threatens to answer the lifelong question neither of them has dared to ask.

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  • "Westen Chan was just eight years old when his Caucasian mother died and his father, Xin, sent him away to be raised by her relatives. Twenty years later, after a lifetime of estrangement, Westen receives an invitation from his father to travel with him to China--a promise Xin once made when Westen was a child. So it is that two strangers--a father and a son--travel halfway around the world to a land that one of them knows intimately and the other has never seen. As they tour the country, the two men reveal themselves slowly and awkwardly: Westen's history of failed relationships and his conflicted cultural identity; Xin's regret at leaving his son and the terrible secret he's kept too long. And in the end, their relationship may just hinge on the contents of a sealed letter written by Westen's mother before her death--one that threatens to answer the lifelong question neither of them has dared to ask."@en
  • "Lorsque la mère de Westen Chan meurt, son père chinois le confie à sa belle-famille américaine avant de partir pour Hong Kong en promettant de vite revenir. Vingt ans plus tard, Westen reçoit une lettre de son père l'invitant à découvrir la Chine. Entre regrets et non-dits pour l'un, difficultés relationnelles et conflit d'identité pour l'autre, le face-à-face a finalement lieu."
  • "After two decades of estrangement that followed the death of his Caucasian mother, Westen Chan joins his father, Xin, on an emotionally charged trip to China, during which both men reveal their individual pain."@en
  • "After two decades of estrangement that followed the death of his Caucasian mother, Westen Chan joins his father, Xin, on an emotionally charged trip to China, during which both men reveal their individual pain."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en

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  • "Lost men : a novel"
  • "Lost men"
  • "Lost Men A Novel"@en
  • "Lost men a novel"
  • "Lost men a novel"@en
  • "Les hommes perdus : roman"

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