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13%OFFSuzanne Ma - Meet Me in Venice - 9781442239364 - V9781442239364
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Meet Me in Venice

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Description for Meet Me in Venice Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 20 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
When Ye Pei dreamed of Venice as a girl, she imagined a magical floating city of canals and gondola rides. And she imagined her mother, successful in her new life and eager to embrace the daughter she had never forgotten. But when Ye Pei arrives in Italy, she learns her mother works on a farm far from the city. Her only connection, a mean-spirited Chinese auntie, puts Ye Pei to work in a small-town café. Rather than giving up and returning to China, a determined Ye Pei takes on a grueling schedule, resolving to save enough money to provide her ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9781442239364
SKU
V9781442239364
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Suzanne Ma
Suzanne Ma is an award-winning journalist and former Associated Press reporter whose work has appeared in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, the Huffington Post, and Salon, among others. She has a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she was awarded the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. Born in Toronto, Suzanne was raised by ... Read more

Reviews for Meet Me in Venice
'For hundreds of years, Qingtian’s biggest export has been people,' journalist Ma writes in her sharp-eyed look at Chinese immigration. Ma focuses her examination on the aforementioned county of Qingtian and the plight of one particular immigrant, Ye Pei, whose family left Qingtian to make their fortune in Italy. Though it is Pei’s father, Shen, who decides to move the ... Read more

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