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Bridegroom, The

By: Vintage Books

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Modern Novels (Vintage Books)

MSRP old price: $12.00


Product Info

Title
Bridegroom, The
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
Ha Jin
Publish Year
2001
Pages
226
Dimensions
5x8x.75"
NKG Part #
2147788630
Type
Novel - Softcover

Description

A collection of comical and deeply moving tales of contemporary China that are as warm and human as they are surprising, disturbing, and delightful.

In the title story, the head of security at a factory is shocked, first when the handsomest worker on the floor proposes marriage to his homely adopted daughter, and again when his new son-in-law is arrested for the "crime" of homosexuality. In "After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town," the workers at an American-style fast food franchise receive a hilarious crash course in marketing, deep frying, and that frustrating capitalist dictum, "the customer is always right."