The pagoda
Jamaica, fiction
Chinese fiction
Plantation life
Chinese
Immigrants
New York Times reviewed
Fiction, general
History
Fiction
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 e…
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