River East, River West: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024

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ISBN: 9780715655627

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Attribute name	Attribute value
Author	Rey Lescure, Aube
Pub Date	02/05/2024
Binding	Paperback
Pages	352

Publisher: GERALD DUCKWORTH & CO. LT

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Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024 - a dark and glittering literary debut that traces a mixed family's troubled trajectory through developing China.

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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024

Shanghai, 2007: feeling betrayed by her American mother's engagement to their rich landlord Lu Fang, fourteen-year-old Alva begins plotting her escape. But the exclusive American School - a potential ticket out - is not what she imagined.

Qingdao, 1985: newlywed Lu Fang works as a lowly shipping clerk. Though he aspires to a bright future, he is one of many casualties of harsh political reforms. Then China opens up to foreigners and capital, and Lu Fang meets a woman who makes him question what he should settle for...

A mesmerising reversal of the east-west immigrant narrative set against China's economic boom, River East, River West is a deeply moving exploration of race, identity and family, of capitalism's false promise and private dreams.