Аннотация
A moving portrait of three generations of the Chan family living in Vancouvers Chinatown Sammy Chan was sure shed escaped her family obligations when she fled Vancouver six years ago, but with her sisters upcoming marriage, her turn has come to care for their aging mother. Abandoned by all four of her older sisters, jobless and stuck in a city she resents, Sammy finds herself cobbling together a makeshift family history and delving into stories that began in 1913, when her grandfather, Seid Quan, then eighteen years old, first stepped on Canadian soil.The End of East weaves in and out of the past and the present, picking up the threads of the Chan familys stories: Seid Quan, whose loneliness in this foreign country is profound even as he joins the Chinatown community; Shew Lin, whose hopes for her family are threatened by her own misguided actions; Pon Man, who struggles with obligation and desire; and Siu Sang, who tries to be the caregiver everyone expects, even as she feels herself unravelling. And in the background, five little girls grow up under the weight of family expectations. As the past unfolds around her, Sammy finds herself embroiled in a volatile mixture of a dangerous love affair, a difficult and duty-filled relationship with her mother, and the still-fresh memories of her fathers long illness.An exquisite and evocative debut from one of Canadas bright new literary stars, The End of East sets family conflicts against the backdrop of Vancouvers Chinatown a city within a city where dreams are shattered as quickly as theyre built, and where history repeats itself through the generations.From the Hardcover edition.
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