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Ghost town : a novel in 45 chapters

ISBN: 9781609457983
ISBN: 1609457986
ISBN: 9781787703919
ISBN: 1787703916
ISBN: 9781787703926
Physical Description: print 327 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher: New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2022.
Copyright: &copy;2019

Chen, Kevin (Actor) (author.). Sterk, Darryl, (translator.).

Summary: "Keith Chen, the second son of a traditional Taiwanese family of seven, runs away from the oppression of his village to Berlin in the hope of finding acceptance as a young gay man. The novel begins a decade later, when Chen has just been released from prison for killing his boyfriend. He is about to return to his family's village, a poor and desolate place. With his parents gone, his sisters married, mad, or dead, there is nothing left for him there. As the story unfurls, we learn what tore this family apart and, more importantly, the truth behind the murder of Chen's boyfriend. Told in a myriad of voices, both living and dead, and moving through time with deceptive ease, Ghost Town weaves a mesmerizing web of family secrets and countryside superstitions, the search for identity and clash of cultures"--