Disappearing Moon Cafe

by Sky Lee

Hardcover, 1991

Status

Available

Publication

Seattle: Seal Press, 1991.

Description

Disappearing Moon Cafe was a stunning debut novel that has become a Canadian literary classic. An unflinchingly honest portrait of a Chinese Canadian family that pulses with life and moral tensions, this family saga takes the reader from the wilderness in nineteenth-century British Columbia to late twentieth-century Hong Kong, to Vancouver's Chinatown. Intricate and lyrical, suspenseful and emotionally rich, it is a riveting story of four generations of women whose lives are haunted by the secrets and lies of their ancestors but also by the racial divides and discrimination that shaped the lives of the first generation of Chinese immigrants to Canada. Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country's greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actors.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member MizPurplest
An excellent, enticing subtly feminist novel with mystery and intrigue and complex character development. I really enjoyed it.
LibraryThing member yukon92
This story had way too many characters and the constant jumping around in the time-line made it very confusing!
I made it through the audiobook, which means I didn't even have the advantage of looking at the family tree that is supposedly in the printed books.

VERY depressing!

Awards

BC and Yukon Book Prizes (Shortlist — Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize — 1991)

Language

Barcode

8988
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