A Pail of Oysters (Sneider Vern)(Paperback)
EAN: 9781910736357
The most important English-language novel ever written about Taiwan.
"Touching, tragic; a testimony to the stubbornly optimistic human spirit."-The San Francisco Chronicle
Set against the political repression and poverty of the White Terror era in Taiwan, A Pail of Oysters tells the moving story of nineteen-year-old villager Li Liu and his quest to recover his family's stolen kitchen god. Li Liu's fate becomes entwined with that of American journalist Ralph Barton, who, in trying to report honestly about Kuomintang rule of the island, investigates the situation beyond the propaganda, learns of a massacre, and is drawn into the world of the Formosan underground.
First published in 1953, A Pail of Oysters was banned in Taiwan, and in the United States it was denounced
"Touching, tragic; a testimony to the stubbornly optimistic human spirit."-The San Francisco Chronicle
Set against the political repression and poverty of the White Terror era in Taiwan, A Pail of Oysters tells the moving story of nineteen-year-old villager Li Liu and his quest to recover his family's stolen kitchen god. Li Liu's fate becomes entwined with that of American journalist Ralph Barton, who, in trying to report honestly about Kuomintang rule of the island, investigates the situation beyond the propaganda, learns of a massacre, and is drawn into the world of the Formosan underground.
First published in 1953, A Pail of Oysters was banned in Taiwan, and in the United States it was denounced
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