The pagoda
First published 1998
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Lowe, the Chinese immigrant, is in his fifties - the owner of a small shop in an impoverished plantation village, and the guardian of a secret that is gradually revealed.
Writing to a long-estranged daughter, Lowe tells her what happened during their years apart - a tale of exile from China, of estrangement from family, of shipboard adventures, of an unwanted pregnancy, of the arrangement that was made to avoid a possible scandal, of the three decades of living as man and wife with a
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light-skinned black woman named Sylvie. It is a story of the destruction of a world: the burning of Lowe's shop.
It describes Lowe's dream of building a Pagoda - a school where Chinese workers might learn about their history and become a part of Jamaican life.
Source: Open Library
Book information
- Author
- Patricia Powell
- First published
- 1998
- Edition
- Pagoda
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf
- ISBN-13
- 9780965063609