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Published on 1. October 2010
978-1-921696-74-9 (ISBN)
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Adrift in a failing marriage, Maya Wise is alone in a strange world far from home in this work of fiction. Intrigued by an elderly Chinese man carrying a caged nightingale, she begins to follow him through the streets and alleys of Hong Kong. Drawn to Ken Tiger and his painful tale of lost love in wartime Shanghai, Maya begins to piece together other stories, other histories from the world around her, and so comes to imagine a different future for herself, resulting in a moving meditation on exile, memory, and the ways in which we reconcile ourselves with loss.This revised edition is for book clubs and provides discussion notes at the end.
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Alice Nelson is an award-winning author. She is the recipient of the T. A. G. Hungerford Award and the Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist of the Year award.
