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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Lin, Francie.     Subjects     Brothers -- Fiction.     Inheritance and succession -- Fiction.     Criminals -- Fiction.     Taiwan -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Lin, Francie.       by title:      The foreigner / Fran...         MARC Display

The foreigner / Francie Lin. by Lin, Francie. New York : Picador, 2008. Subjects Brothers -- Fiction.   Inheritance and succession -- Fiction.   Criminals -- Fiction.   Taiwan -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780312364045 (pbk.) 0312364040 Description:  311 p. ; 21 cm. Edition:  1st ed. Requests:  0 Summary:  Emerson, a man of Taiwanese descent living in the U.S., who speaks no Chinese, travels to Taiwan to scatter his mother's ashes. He must convey a disputed inheritance to his brother who is involved in the Taiwanese criminal underworld and who conceals a secret which has alienated him from his family. Emerson hopes to appease both the living and the dead by discovering his brother's secret and save what is left of his family. This is a darkly comic tale of crime and contrition about what is means to be a foreigner, even in one's own family.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status Due Date   Aiea Public Library Adult Fiction Lin   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Mystery Lin (pbk.) Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Adult Fiction Lin   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Liliha Public Library Adult Fiction Lin Pap Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Waianae Public Library Adult Fiction Lin   Claimed Returned 02/12/2010 Add Copy to MyList

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