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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
"Sentimental, heartfelt....the exploration of Henry's changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful episode in American history, but cautions us to examine the present and take heed we don't repeat t ...Show more
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps during World War II. As the owner displays and unfurls a Japa ...Show more
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
$29.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
A New York Times Bestseller, Winner of the 2009 Montana Book Award and the 2010 Asian Pacific American Award for Literature -- Set during one of the most conflicted and volatile times in American history, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is an extraordinary story of commitment and enduring hope.T ...Show more
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (POD) by Jamie Ford
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The New York Times bestselling novel about a chance discovery in boarded up old hotel that brings back long forgotten memories and rekindles a forbidden love, swept aside during the chaos and heartbreak of World War II and internment of Japanese families in the wake of Pearl Harbor. In 1986, Henry Lee j ...Show more
Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
1909, Seattle. At the World's Fair a half-Chinese boy called Ernest Young is raffled off as a prize. He ends up working in a brothel in Seattle's famed Red Light District and falls in love with Maisie, the daughter of a flamboyant madam, and Fahn, a karayuki-san, a Japanese maid sold into servitude.On t ...Show more
Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese American boy, has lived at Seattle's Sacred Heart Orphanage ever since his mother's listless body was carried away from their small apartment five years ago. On his birthday - or rather, the day the nuns designate as his birthday - William and the other orphans are ...Show more
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