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Author: Gish Jen
ISBN: 9780307389220
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Year: 2008
Format: Paper
Condition: New
ISBN: 9780307389220
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Year: 2008
Format: Paper
Condition: New
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This wonderful, bittersweet novel of misadventure and creeping assimilation begins in 1947, when the Shanghai-based Changs send young Ralph halfway around the world to study in New York. He sets off with two goals in mind--to master engineering and to avoid girls at any cost.