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The Boat to Redemption: A Novel

by Su Tong; Howard Goldblatt
Publisher
Overlook Books
Year
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
368

Su Tong anchors his story to the river where China's dispossessed find temporary sanctuary. Secretary Ku's disgrace becomes liberation—cast out from land-based respectability, he discovers the floating community of boat people who've learned to make home from motion itself. The translation flows like river water, carrying undertones of political allegory without sacrificing narrative momentum. For readers who appreciate fiction that finds dignity in displacement, who understand that exile sometimes offers the only honest perspective on home.

$5.00 SKU 9781590206720
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