Slow Boat to China: Chen Dan Yan's First Long Novel in 8 Years (Chen Dan Yan's First Long Novel in 8 Years)

Author: Chen Danyan
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: Shanghai girl Fan arrived in New York, USA, in late 1989 after much hardship, living in Greenwich where her grandfather once resided. She soon became pregnant with a child by a white young man and, after having an abortion, developed a mental illness. Her father, who came to pick her up in the US, reluctantly caused a tragic car accident to obtain compensation, and then sent his younger daughter, Jane, to the US. After graduating, Jane returned to Shanghai as an employee of the US side. She experienced a career failure when her child told her mother that someone had hit her. The mother,,shouted at her child in the back of the person's figure, "Next time you meet someone like this, kick them right in the face! Don't be nice to people like that." Yet, the person who hit the child still didn't even turn around as they walked away.