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Waxwings

Paperback • 2003 • English • 1. edition

Waxwings

By Jonathan Raban

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About the book

At the turn of the millennium, two immigrants are drawn to the United States by their own versions of the American Dream. For Tom Janeway - a Hungarian-born English intellectual most at home with his books - it's the family he thought he'd never have. For Chick - an illegal alien newly escaped from a cargo container - it's the land of plenty he imagined back in China. But, the two men's dreams collide in a way neither could have anticipated. Unjustly accused of a horrific crime, estranged from h...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Book details

ISBN

9780330419611

Publisher

Picador

Published year

2003

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Waxwings

Format

Paperback

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