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All that matters : a novel

Set in Vancouver's Chinatown in the 1930s and 1940s, Choy continues the story of the Chen family household, this time narrated by First Son, Kiam-Kim. We first meet Kiam-Kim at the age of eight, staring at the yellowed photograph of his mother, who died in China when he was just a baby. Kiam-Kim, Poh-Poh (his larger-than-life grandmother) and Mr. Chen, his demure and honest father, journey to a new life in Vancouver's Old Chinatown. Following the dream of finding gold and then one day returning to China -- wealthy -- they, like many Chinese families around them, find themselves in a country on the brink of the Second World War, struggling to survive in a foreign land and keep alive the traditions of an older world.

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  • ""Kiam-Kim is three years old when he arrives by ship at Gold Mountain with his father and his grandmother, Poh-Poh. From his earliest years, Kiam-Kim is deeply conscious of his responsibility to maintain the family's honor and to set an example for his younger siblings. However, his life is increasingly complicated by his burgeoning awareness of the world outside Vancouver's Chinatown"--The publisher."
  • "Continues the Chen family story of life in Vancouver's Chinatown during the 1930s and 1940s."
  • "Set in Vancouver's Chinatown in the 1930s and 1940s, Choy continues the story of the Chen family household, this time narrated by First Son, Kiam-Kim. We first meet Kiam-Kim at the age of eight, staring at the yellowed photograph of his mother, who died in China when he was just a baby. Kiam-Kim, Poh-Poh (his larger-than-life grandmother) and Mr. Chen, his demure and honest father, journey to a new life in Vancouver's Old Chinatown. Following the dream of finding gold and then one day returning to China -- wealthy -- they, like many Chinese families around them, find themselves in a country on the brink of the Second World War, struggling to survive in a foreign land and keep alive the traditions of an older world."@en
  • "Une suite à La pivoine de jade (2007) qui continue de raconter, avec beaucoup de sensibilité, l'enfance et l'adolescence d'un jeune Chinois immigré à Vancouver dans les années 1940."
  • "Set in the 1930s and 40s, All That Matters continues the story of the Chen family, this time through the eyes of First Son Kiam-Kim. Having left behind the harshness of life in their Toishan village, Kiam-Kim, his principled, tireless father and his indomitable grandmother, Poh- Poh, arrive in Gold Mountain with dreams of a better future."

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  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Family sagas"
  • "Canadian fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en

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  • "All that matters : a novel"@en
  • "All that matters : a novel"
  • "All that matters a novel"@en
  • "La montagne d'or"
  • "All that matters"@en
  • "All that matters"

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