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The Foreigner
The Foreigner
Author: Francie Lin
Set against the Taiwanese criminal underworld, The Foreigner is Francie Lin's audacious debut novel. A noirish tale about family, fraternity, conscience, and the curious gulf between a man's culture and his deepest self — Emerson Chang is a mild mannered bachelor on the cusp of forty, a financial analyst in a n...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780312364045
ISBN-10: 0312364040
Publication Date: 5/27/2008
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Picador
Book Type: Paperback
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Emerson Chang is a mild mannered bachelor on the cusp of forty, a child of Taiwanese immigrants who doesn't speak a word of Chinese. His only real family is his mother, whose subtle manipulations have kept him close.

But when his mother suddenly dies, Emerson sets out for Taipei to scatter her ashes, and to convey a surprising inheritance to his younger brother, Little P. Hoping to appease both the living and the dead, Emerson isn’t about to give up the inheritance until he uncovers Little P's past, and saves what is left of his family.

The Foreigner is a darkly comic tale of crime and contrition, and a riveting story about what it means to be a foreigner--even in one's own family.


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