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In the fabled east a novel
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- ISBN: 9781553656159 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1553656156 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (408 p. : map) - Publisher: Vancouver [B.C.] : Douglas & McIntyre, 2010
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | COVER PAGE; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT PAGE; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; THE FABLE OF THE SPRING OF IMMORTALITY; MARSEILLES CUTTHROATS; MONSIEUR HENRI LEDALLIC; HER PHOTOGRAPH; A BOY WITH WATER IN HIS MOUTH; A SAD PAST AND A BRIGHT FUTURE; THE RUBBING OF A LAMP; A DETECTIVE FOR THE REPUBLIC; AN ORPHAN MAKES HER WAY IN THE WORLD; STRANGLER QUINN; EVERY PARISIAN'S NIGHTMARE; THE COURTYARD AT THE CONTINENTAL; THE ONE HUNDRED WOUNDS; FARMERS; AN INTERLUDE IN THE SULTANA'S PALACE; THE LEDGER AT LEIT TUHK; SHIT MIXED WITH ORANGES; ADDRESSING THE EASTERN IMMORTALITY FABLE; THE KEMMARAT RAPIDS |
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| Subject: | Mothers and sons -- Fiction Paris (France) -- Fiction Indochina -- Fiction FICTION / General Mothers and sons France -- Paris Indochina |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Fiction. |
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Summary:
From one of Canada's best young voices comes a sweeping literary adventure set against the backdrop of French Indochina. Paris, 1909: Adélie Tremier, a young widow suffering the final stages of tuberculosis, flees for French-occupied Indochina, through the lush forests of Laos, to seek out a fabled spring of immortality that might allow her to return to her nine-year-old son. Laos, 1936: Pierre Lazarie, a young academic turned Saigon bureaucrat, is sent by Adélie's son, now an Army captain, to find his longlost mother. Although his assigned quest fulfills Pierre's fantasy to travel up the exot
