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BOAT TO REDEMPTION
SU TONG

TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS LTD (JAN 2010)
HARDBACK, 368 pages, 242 x 157 mm.
Prod. # 9780385613446 (British edition)
Category: Fiction

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HE AN [THE BOAT TO REDEMPTION] (CHINESE EDITION) American paperback edition

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Disgraced Secretary Ku has been banished from the Party - it has been officially proved he does not have a fish-shaped birthmark on his bottom and is therefore not the son of a revolutionary martyr, but the issue of a river pirate and a prostitute. Mocked by the citizens of Milltown, Ku leaves the shore for a new life among the boat people.

Su Tong's new novel "The Boat to Redemption" is a study of life's frustrations. It contrasts history with now, reality with illusion, sophisticated city people with naive country folks, exposing the cruelty of what shame and pride play in life. The book won the 2009 Man Asian Literary prize, the regional equivalent of the Man Booker prize. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc. ... from the American paperback edition

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